Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or produced by water; dropsical.
- noun A medicine that relieves or cures dropsy.
- noun A dropsical person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dropsical, or resembling dropsy.
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- adjective
Dropsical . - adjective obsolete Insatiably
thirsty (like someone withdropsy ). - adjective Swollen with water.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the convulsive asthma these sweats do not occur; hence they may be distinguished; and might be called the hydropic asthma, and the epileptic asthma.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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* "Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst."
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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Milner R, Kitano Y, Oluyinka O, Flake AW, Adzick NS: Radiofrequency thermal ablation (RTA): A potential treatment for hydropic fetuses with a large chest mass.
Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation publications 2010
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This early phase progresses to fluid accumulation in the cells making them pale-staining or showing vacuoles, which is known to the pathologist as "cloudy swelling" or "hydropic degeneration".
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Or for having “200 sons and 200 daughters” in a single miscarriage, as one Puritan-era headstone had it - hydropic placenta with failure of embryo to develop.
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The beta cells are degranulated, they swell, become vacuolized and go into hydropic degeneration.
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It also distorts the vision, producing an hydropic effect, as has been noted by Calderón in his _Life is a Dream_.
Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914
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One perfectly hydropic or filled with dropsy was entirely cured.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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I know of no statesman in history who has given, under analogous circumstances, such proof of want of foresight as was given by Bismarck, comprehensible only if the body could assume the authority of the will, as did his, and if the intelligence could disappear, as did his, in an hydropic and unquenchable desire for power.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Various 1888
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He disregarded the claims of the physical life, and became "soul-hydropic with a sacred thirst".
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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