dropsy

/drop-see/US // ˈdrɒp si //UK // (ˈdrɒpsɪ) //

水肿,浮肿,水肿症,水肿病

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : edema.
- : an infectious disease of fishes, characterized by a swollen, spongelike body and protruding scales, caused by a variety of the bacterium Pseudomonas punctata.

I am very sorry to hear that Batt is detained at Oxford in a bad state of health, with some symptoms of a growing dropsy.
The old chief was suffering with dropsy, but under Moffat's medical care he recovered, and was soon able to walk about again.
I found him extremely unwell, with what I conceived to be a dropsy, for his abdomen was very much swollen.
Most of them died from intermitting fever, and from dropsy and rheumatism which followed it.
It is distinguished from common dropsy, by the lower parts of the stomach being most swollen.