English-Thai Dictionary

dropsy

N ภาวะ ของ ร่างกาย ที่ สะสม น้ำ เกิน ปกติ  par-wa-khong-rang-kai-ti-sa-som-nam-kern-pok-ti

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DROPSY

n.[L, Gr. , water; the face. Formerly written hydropisy; whence by contraction, dropsy. ] In medicine, an unnatural collection of water, in an part of the body, proceeding from a greater effusion of serum by the exhalant arteries, than the absorbents take up. It occurs most frequently in persons of lax habits, or in bodies debilitated by disease. The dropsy takes different names, according to the part affected; as ascites, or dropsy of the abdomen; hydrocephalus, or water in the head; anasarca, or a watery swelling over the whole body; etc.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DROPSY

Drop "sy, n.; pl. Dropsies. Etym: [OE. dropsie, dropesie, OF. idropisie, F. hydropisie, L. hydropisis, fr. Gr. Water, and cf. Hydropsy. ] (Med. )

 

Defn: An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dropsy

drop sy |ˈdräpsē ˈdrɑpsi | ▶noun ( pl. dropsies ) old-fashioned or less technical term for edema. [Middle English: shortening of idropesie, earlier form of obsolete hydropsy, via Old French and Latin from Greek hudrōps ‘dropsy, ’ from hudōr ‘water. ’]

 

dropsy

dropsy 2 |ˈdrɒpsi | ▶noun ( pl. dropsies ) Brit. informal a tip or bribe: McCloy's little dropsy for services rendered. ORIGIN 1930s: slang, elaborated form of slang drop ‘a bribe ’.

 

Oxford Dictionary

dropsy

dropsy 1 |ˈdrɒpsi | ▶noun ( pl. dropsies ) old-fashioned or less technical term for oedema. ORIGIN Middle English: shortening of idropesie, earlier form of obsolete hydropsy, via Old French and Latin from Greek hudrōps ‘dropsy ’, from hudōr ‘water ’.

 

dropsy

dropsy 2 |ˈdrɒpsi | ▶noun ( pl. dropsies ) Brit. informal a tip or bribe: McCloy's little dropsy for services rendered. ORIGIN 1930s: slang, elaborated form of slang drop ‘a bribe ’.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dropsy

drop sy /drɑ́psi |drɔ́p -/名詞 U 〘医 〙水腫 （すいしゆ ）.