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anasarca
[ an-uh-sahr-kuh ]
noun
- a pronounced, generalized edema.
anasarca
/ ˌæ²Ôəˈ²õÉ‘Ë°ìÉ™ /
noun
- pathol a generalized accumulation of serous fluid within the subcutaneous connective tissue, resulting in oedema
Derived Forms
- ËŒ²¹²Ô²¹Ëˆ²õ²¹°ù³¦´Ç³Ü²õ, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²¹²Ôa·²õ²¹°ùc´Ç³Ü²õ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of anasarca1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of anasarca1
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Example Sentences
Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.
Two weeks subsequently she was affected with severe nephritis, anasarca, effusion into at least one of the pleural cavities, oedema of the lungs, and probably hydro-pericardium, the case ending fatally.
He became so feeble that he had not strength enough to enable him to bring up the expectoration; his chest was full of it; fever was less; there was general anasarca.
When a patient is seen in the condition of broken compensation with the much dilated heart, anasarca, dyspnea and suppression of urine, there is no better practice than venesection.
It was attacking but an aged power dissolving in its own corruption, which, blind with pride, looked with complacency on its own unnatural greatness, its political anasarca.
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