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Definition of Oedema

1. Noun. Swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities.

Definition of Oedema

1. Noun. (British pathology) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity ¹

2. Noun. (British) A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water ¹

3. Noun. (alternative spelling of (oedema)) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oedema

1. edema [n -MAS or -MATA] - See also: edema

Medical Definition of Oedema

1. The presence of abnormally large amounts of fluid in the intercellular tissue spaces of the body, usually applied to demonstrable accumulation of excessive fluid in the subcutaneous tissues. Oedema may be localised, due to venous or lymphatic obstruction or to increased vascular permeability or it may be systemic due to heart failure or renal disease. Collections of oedema fluid are designated according to the site, for example ascites (peritoneal cavity), hydrothorax (pleural cavity) and hydropericardium (pericardial sac). Massive generalised oedema is called anasarca. Origin: Gr. Oide ma = swelling This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Oedema

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"Several authors have summarized the literature of acute pulmonary oedema, and have made tables of the various conditions with which it was associated. ..."

2. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1887)
"In chronic nephritis the oedema, without doubt, often arises in quite ... This oedema is then a true general oedema of stasis, and may be regarded as ..."

3. A Handbook of pathological anatomy and histology: With an Introductory by Francis Delafield, Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1889)
"In persons who have been comatose from any cause for some hours before death, congestion and oedema of the lungs are regularly developed. ..."

4. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1881)
"The term oedema, or effusion into the subcutaneous connective tissue, is applied to all cases in which swelling of a part pits on pressure. ..."

5. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1889)
"One kind of oedema we have already touched upon in speaking of the ... In this kind of oedema owing to changes in the vascular walls a larger amount of ..."

6. The Diagnostics of internal medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1906)
"Anasarca is a subcutaneous oedema diffused over the body at large—general œdema. ... The existence of oedema is in most cases readily perceived. ..."

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