anasarca

[an-uh-sahr-kuh]

noun

Pathology.

1. a pronounced, generalized edema.

anasarca

/ ˌænəˈsɑːkə /

noun

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

Other Word Forms

• anasarcous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of anasarca¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of anasarca¹

C14: from New Latin, from _ana- (puffed up) + Greek sarx flesh

Example Sentences

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.

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The altered state of the blood soon gives rise to transudation of serum, first observed in most cases as an anasarca occurring in the feet and ankles.

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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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