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anasarca

[ an-uh-sahr-kuh ]

noun

Pathology.
  1. a pronounced, generalized edema.


anasarca

/ ˌæ²Ôəˈ²õÉ‘Ë°ìÉ™ /

noun

  1. pathol a generalized accumulation of serous fluid within the subcutaneous connective tissue, resulting in oedema
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Derived Forms

  • ËŒ²¹²Ô²¹Ëˆ²õ²¹°ù³¦´Ç³Ü²õ, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²¹²Ôa·²õ²¹°ùc´Ç³Ü²õ adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of anasarca1

1350–1400; Middle English (< Middle French ) < Medieval Latin, representing Greek phrase anà sárka literally, throughout the body
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of anasarca1

C14: from New Latin, from ana- (puffed up) + Greek sarx flesh
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Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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