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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, the effusion of lymph into the peritoneal cavity; ascites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Same as
ascites .
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- noun medicine The
accumulation offluid in theperitoneum
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