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- adjective British Alternative form of
edematous .
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Examples
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An oedematous Tumour was found to occupy all the upper part of the Cerebrum between it and the Pia mater.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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She had a prolapsed uterus and anus, with massive mucous discharges, was paralysed and oedematous from the waist down and her entire body was covered with abrasions and flea bites.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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She had a prolapsed uterus and anus, with massive mucous discharges, was paralysed and oedematous from the waist down and her entire body was covered with abrasions and flea bites.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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An oedematous Tumour was found to occupy all the upper part of the Cerebrum between it and the Pia mater.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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An oedematous Tumour was found to occupy all the upper part of the Cerebrum between it and the Pia mater.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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She had a prolapsed uterus and anus, with massive mucous discharges, was paralysed and oedematous from the waist down and her entire body was covered with abrasions and flea bites.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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It's a mistake to talk about being full of grief, as if grief were a tumour, or a full stomach, or something oedematous.
Archive 2007-03-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007
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It's a mistake to talk about being full of grief, as if grief were a tumour, or a full stomach, or something oedematous.
In the fulness of one's grief Adam Roberts Project 2007
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P.S. I forgot to tell you, that my right ancle pits, a symptom, as I take it, of its being oedematous, not leucophlegmatic.
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Perhaps, indeed, your disorder may be oedematous, or gouty, or it may be the lues venerea: If you have any reason to flatter yourself it is this last, sir, I will undertake to cure you with three small pills, even if the disease should have attained its utmost inveteracy.
raven_in_the_woods commented on the word oedematous
pertaining to a condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body; having dropsy
September 20, 2010