edema
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
oedema \oe*de"ma\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? a swelling, tumor, fr. ?
to swell.] (Med.)
A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular
tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the
subcutaneous cellular tissue. [Written also {edema}.]
[1913 Webster]
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
170 Moby Thesaurus words for "edema":
abscess, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement,
accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, ague,
amplification, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, appreciation,
ascent, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, augmentation,
backache, ballooning, bleeding, blennorhea, bloat, bloatedness,
bloating, blowing up, boil, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, bump,
bunion, cachexia, cachexy, carbuncle, chill, chills, colic,
constipation, convulsion, corn, coughing, crescendo, cyanosis,
cyst, development, diarrhea, diastole, dilatation, dilation,
distension, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea,
elevation, emaciation, enlargement, expansion, extension, fainting,
fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flatulence, flatulency, flatus,
flood, flux, furuncle, gain, gassiness, greatening, growth, gush,
hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hike, hydrops, hypertension,
hypotension, icterus, increase, increment, indigestion,
inflammation, inflation, insomnia, intumescence, itching, jaundice,
jump, labored breathing, leap, low blood pressure, lumbago, lump,
marasmus, meteorism, mounting, multiplication, nasal discharge,
nausea, necrosis, pain, paralysis, pimple, pock, productiveness,
proliferation, pruritus, puff, puffiness, puffing, pustule, raise,
rash, rheum, rise, rising, sclerosis, sebaceous cyst, seizure,
shock, skin eruption, sneezing, snowballing, sore, spasm, spread,
stretching, surge, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tabes,
tachycardia, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor,
turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism,
tympany, up, upping, upset stomach, upsurge, upswing, uptrend,
upturn, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, waxing, wen, widening,
windiness
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