Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Medicine An excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue spaces or a body cavity.
- noun Botany A condition of plants characterized by blisterlike swellings on the leaves or other parts, caused by an accumulation of water.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a puffiness or swelling of parts arising from accumulation of serous fluid in interstices of the areolar tissue: as, edema of the eyelids.
- noun A genus of bombycid moths, founded by Walker in 1855, having the palpi pilose, rather long, ascending in the male and porrect in the female, with the third joint lanceolate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Same as
œdema .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US, pathology An
excessive accumulation ofserum intissue spaces or abody cavity - noun US A similar
swelling inplants caused by excessiveaccumulation ofwater
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The English word "edema" comes from the Greek word oidema, meaning "a swelling tumor", which is derived from the Greek verb oidein meaning "to swell".
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And I still am a little bit -- have a little bit of what they call edema, which is swelling.
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And I still am a little bit -- have a little bit of what they call edema, which is swelling.
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And I still am a little bit -- have a little bit of what they call edema, which is swelling.
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As edema is a clinical sign of a perturbation of fluid homeostasis, excess fat accumulation is indicative of a perturbation in energy balance.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Obesity is a Sign, Overeating is a Symptom 2009
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• Abnormal accumulation of fluid around the ankles and wrist called edema, which is linked to starvation
Susan B. Dopart, M.S., R.D.: Lessons Learned From the Biggest Loser 2010
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As edema is a clinical sign of a perturbation of fluid homeostasis, excess fat accumulation is indicative of a perturbation in energy balance.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Obesity is a Sign, Overeating is a Symptom 2008
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This leakage is called edema, a condition that swells the ankles of human patients who have a weak heart.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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This leakage is called edema, a condition that swells the ankles of human patients who have a weak heart.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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This leakage is called edema, a condition that swells the ankles of human patients who have a weak heart.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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