hydropic

American  

[hahy-drop-ik] / haɪˈdrɒp ɪk /

Also hydropical

adjective

Pathology.

1. dropsical.

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Other Word Forms

• hydropically
  adverb

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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

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Example Sentences

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hydropic

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 Franklin Bache

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 Charles Eliot Norton

"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 Franklin Bache

The poet observes, that the wants of philosophy are contracted, satisfied with “cheap contentment,” but Taste alone requires Entire profusion! days and nights, and hours Thy voice, hydropic Fancy! calls aloud For costly draughts.——

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

It is consequently, cæteris paribus, in a less quantity where the general hydropic excitement of the system succeeds, and is dependent on the local one.

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

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