hydropic

American  

[hahy-drop-ik] / haɪˈdrɒp ɪk /

Also hydropical

adjective

Pathology.

1. dropsical.

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Other Word Forms

• hydropically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of hydropic

1580–90; < Latin hydrōpicus < Greek hydrōpikós, equivalent to hydrōp- (stem of hýdrōps ) hydrops + -ikos -ic; replacing Middle English ydropike < Old French < Latin

Example Sentences

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hydropic

And the hydropic, "Thou sayst true in this, but thou wast not so true a witness there where thou wast questioned of the truth at Troy."

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Norton, Charles Eliot

Prunelloes have scarce any laxative quality: these are mild grateful refrigerants, and, by being occasionally kept in the mouth, usefully allay the thirst of hydropic persons.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William

When fever exists first, and terminates in dropsy, who has proved, that there existed no local irritation producing the fever, and that the hydropic irritation has not supervened by metastasis.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin

"Sometimes, adult patients wholly recover from chronic or sub-acute inflammation, which induced the structural disease, and this last becomes, at some future period, the occasional cause of the hydropic one."

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin

In this cellular Membrane the extravasated Waters of hydropic Patients are commonly diffused; and here they give Way to that Motion, to which their own Weight disposes them.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)