noun. A general accumulation of serous fluid in various tissues and body cavities.

noun. In pathology, a wide-spread edema or dropsical affection of the skin and subcutaneous connective tissue.

noun. In botany, the condition of plants when the tissues become gorged with fluid in very wet weather.

noun. Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

noun. Generalised oedema

noun. generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue

"Upon the reperusal of this book I found the bishop only asserting his opinion that tar-water might be useful in the dropsy, since he had known it to have a surprising success in the cure of a most stubborn anasarca, which is indeed no other than, as the word implies, the dropsy of the flesh; and this was, at that time, a large part of my complaint."

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