(n.) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The involvement of the neurological system in epidemic dropsy is controversial.
(2) Papillophlebitis, a new ocular manifestation of Argemone mexicana oil toxicity, as also the fluorescein angiographic picture in epidemic dropsy is being reported for the first time in the literature.
(3) It is concluded that dropsy glaucoma is hypersecretory in nature; prostaglandin and histamine release may have significant roles in its pathogenesis.
(4) During an outbreak of epidemic dropsy in Delhi, 233 patients were studied.
(5) Four cases manifesting features characteristic of epidemic dropsy following body massage with contaminated mustard oil are reported.
(6) Four had large amount of hydropericardium, two had pericardial friction sound, and two had hydropericardium accompanied with thorax dropsy as initial presentation.
(7) Accompanying the hepatic encephalopathy were hematemesis, abdominal dropsy, and hyperammonemia, conditions observed in hepatic coma patients.
(8) A rare complication of calculous cholecystitis (calculous that had migrated from the gallbladder and held in a circumscribed peritoneal sac with no fistula between this and the gallbladder) was observed in a woman who had been suffering from dropsy of the gallbladder with calculi for some 13 years.
(9) The game against Hungary was Dropsy's debut and he would go on to win another 16 caps.
(10) Eight cases of severe dropsy of the fetal sacs have been observed in mares.
(11) On the basis of physicochemical and serological tests and electron microscopy, the virus was identified as spring viraemia carp virus and assumed to have a primary role in the acute form of infectious dropsy known so far as a bacterial disease.
(12) While dropsy referred to symptoms easily perceived by the patient as well as the physician, Bright's disease focused mainly on microscopic pathology invisible to the patient.
(13) In hydrocephalus of non-tumorous origin ventriculoscopy makes its possible, as a rule, to determine the origin of the dropsy and its character.
(14) He conceded the winning goal against Argentina and was replaced for France's final group game by Dominique Dropsy.
(15) Thirty-one cases of epidemic dropsy with raised intraocular pressure were studied.
(16) This year we are celebrating the bicentenary of the publication, by William Withering, of An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medicinal Uses with Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases (1).
(17) During two outbreaks of epidemic dropsy, detailed neurological and ocular examinations and electrophysiological studies of peripheral nerves and muscles (motor nerve conduction velocities, sensory nerve latencies and electromyography) and eye (electroretinogram and visually evoked cortical responses) were therefore undertaken.
(18) From carps showing the symptoms of acute infectious dropsy, a virus was isolated for the first time in Hungary.
(19) The data showed that pericardial metastasis is often misdiagnosed if hydropericardium with thorax dropsy appeared initially.
(20) The alkaloid sanguinarine reported to be responsible for several outbreaks of epidemic dropsy in the tropics was examined for its hepatotoxic potential in rats.
Hydrops
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(2) Although one of the two formulas predicted hematocrit values significantly, the only component of the formula that made a significant contribution was fetal hydrops.
(3) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
(4) Obliteration of the endolymphatic duct resulted in endolymphatic hydrops of varying severity in 55% of the rats, after survival times varying from one to five months.
(5) Both fetuses were hydropic and one fetus was also anemic.
(6) Twenty-two cases of nonimmune hydrops fetalis (NIHF) seen over a three-year period are described.
(7) Two hundred intrauterine exchange transfusions were performed under local anesthesia in 107 cases of blood incompatibilities (60 fetuses with severe anemia and 47 with hydrops).
(8) In one case of a nonimune fetal hydrops at the 27-week gestation, the aspiration of the accumulated fluid and the intraperitoneal injection of albumin at 27 and 34 weeks, respectively, were performed.
(9) The third fetus was mildly hydropic, attributed to hemorrhage, and was stillborn.
(10) The endo- and perilymphatic glycocalyx of the cochlear epithelia were investigated ultrastructurally in normal and hydropic cochleas using the electron-dense markers cationized ferritin and colloidal thorium.
(11) Important data were obtained from the analysis, the most outstanding was the fact that both the mother with previous pregnancies and incompatible Rh blood transfusions, cause the hemolytic diseases to the unborn product, which usually presents at birth a severe and clear hydrops fetalis.
(12) HbH disease and hydrops fetalis were not encountered.
(13) Nineteen of 23 animals with unilateral endolymphatic hydrops showed spontaneous nystagmus in an inverted posture.
(14) The mother had previously delivered a macerated, hydropic infant with multiple congenital anomalies.
(15) The amiloride caused collapse of the lateral intercellular spaces in the endolymphatic sac epithelium and a subsequent mild endolymphatic hydrops.
(16) We conclude that alpha-thalassemia traits are common genetic disorders in Taiwan and that antenatal screening is advised to reduce the frequency of occurrence of hemoglobin Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(17) The liver tissue showed reduction of glycogen content as well as hydropic changes in the centrilobular areas six hours after the start of exposure.
(18) Several clinical reports suggest allergy as a causative or associated factor in the etiology of Ménière's Disease or endolymphatic hydrops.
(19) We report another association of a nonimmune hydrops fetalis with Niemann-Pick disease as evident by electron microscopy, and wish to add this disorder to the list of conditions associated with nonimmune hydrops fetalis.
(20) Although this series is not comprehensive enough, it seems to indicate that interruption of the lateral semicircular duct has a possibility of diminishing labyrinthine hydrops, as in cases of Ménière's disease, without hearing disturbance, provided that complications do not develop.