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dropsy

[ UK /dɹˈɒpsi/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹɑpsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities

How To Use dropsy In A Sentence

  • She had also contracted dropsy and swollen to gargantuan proportions. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
  • -- General dropsy, elephantiasis, lipomata, myxedema, and various other affections in which there is a hypertrophic change of the connective tissues may be mistaken for general obesity; on the other hand, a fatty, pendulous abdomen may simulate the appearances of pregnancy or even of ovarian cyst. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • Dr Johnson was overweight and suffered from chronic bronchitis, gout and dropsy, as well as nervous tics and compulsive gesticulations.
  • There are two kinds of dropsy, the one anasarca, which, when formed, is incurable; the other is accompanied with emphysema On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • Jesus was on the watch as well, having noticed a man who had a condition known as dropsy. Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible
  • After that, despite my best efforts, Hernandez succumbed to dropsy and Eduardo developed terrible fungus which consumed his fins and turned his beautiful blue body brown.
  • She had also contracted dropsy and swollen to gargantuan proportions. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
  • So sweet is the delight of study, the more learning they have (as he that hath a dropsy, the more he drinks the thirstier he is) the more they covet to learn, and the last day is prioris discipulus; harsh at first learning is, radices amarcae, but fractus dulces, according to that of Isocrates, pleasant at last; the longer they live, the more they are enamoured with the Muses. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Dr Johnson was overweight and suffered from chronic bronchitis, gout and dropsy, as well as nervous tics and compulsive gesticulations.
  • When William Withering, a Shropshire physician and botanist, heard how a man with dropsy had recovered after drinking a herbal medicine that had been brewed from foxglove, he had to know exactly how the plant had worked.
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