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Anasarca

ANAS'ARCA

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Noun.
[Gr. in or between, and flesh.]
A species of dropsy, from a serous humor spread between the skin and flesh; or an accumulation of lymph in the cellular membrane, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

Definition 2024


anasarca

anasarca

English

Noun

anasarca (plural anasarcas)

  1. (medicine) Generalised oedema

Translations


Italian

Etymology

Ancient Greek ana- +

Noun

anasarca m (plural anasarchi)

  1. (medicine) anasarca

Portuguese

Noun

anasarca f (plural anasarcas)

  1. (medicine) anasarca (generalised oedema)