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nounPlural dropsies ˈdrɒpsiˈdrɑpsi old-fashioned or less technical term for oedema Example sentencesExamples - We discovered two cases of cholera, one of TB, one of the dreaded lurgy while another was afflicted with a dropsy so massive we had no choice but to put him to sleep.
- To explain Sophia's increasing size and necessary absence away from the family, the king was told that she was bloated due to dropsy and had to be sent away to recover.
- Mediaeval monks were aware of the benefits of salt mud and concentrated sea water and used them to treat rheumatism, dropsy and obesity.
- When he set out for Portugal in 1754, in the vain hope of recovering his health, Fielding was suffering so greatly from gout, dropsy, asthma, and other complications that he had to be carried aboard the Queen of Portugal.
- Having recognized her symptoms as heart disease and dropsy because they led to his mother's death, he knew what could relieve her pain and gave her a medicine made from a special herb called foxglove.
- It is applied against epilepsy, paralysis, dropsy, etc.
- Bright separated dropsies of renal origin from dropsies due to other causes, such as heart and liver disease.
- When William Withering, a Shropshire physician and botanist, heard how a man with dropsy had recovered after drinking a herbal medicine that had been brewed from foxglove, he had to know exactly how the plant had worked.
- I think very much that your little guy has dropsy.
- From such examination, physicians considered that they could identify problems ranging from jaundice to dropsy, diphtheria, pregnancy, and anxiety.
- In the 1925 edition of Osler's text, respiratory failure was described as ‘frothy pulmonary edema that resembles serum, not the sanguinous transudative edema fluid seen in dropsy or congestive heart failure’.
- About a year ago, edible mustard oil laced with a cheap chemical substance became a public health issue when it was revealed that it led to development of dropsy.
- Disease manifestations, such as fever, dropsy, diarrhea, or cyanosis, were used as names of diseases.
- Cures using herbs for diseases such as fever, jaundice, dropsy and leprosy are enumerated.
- These included abortion, asthma, dropsy, sterility, cancer, dysmenorrhea, melancholy, empyema, worms, and jaundice to name only a few.
- She suffered from gout and dropsy for many years, though her death in 1619 was sudden.
- After that, despite my best efforts, Hernandez succumbed to dropsy and Eduardo developed terrible fungus which consumed his fins and turned his beautiful blue body brown.
- Dr Johnson was overweight and suffered from chronic bronchitis, gout and dropsy, as well as nervous tics and compulsive gesticulations.
- It was said to be a cure for dropsy and bladder stones.
- The leaves are bitter and are used as a remedy for ophthalmia, ulcers, dropsy, cholera and beriberi associated with a weakness of the heart.
OriginMiddle English: shortening of idropesie, earlier form of obsolete hydropsy, via Old French and Latin from Greek hudrōps 'dropsy', from hudōr 'water'. nounPlural dropsiesˈdrɒpsiˈdrɑpsi British informal A tip or bribe. 〈英，非正式〉小费；贿金 McCloy's little dropsy for services rendered 麦克洛伊为所提供的服务付的一点小费。 Synonyms gratuity, baksheesh, bonus, little extra, bit extra, present, gift, reward, inducement
Origin1930s: slang, elaborated form of slang drop 'a bribe'. nounˈdräpsēˈdrɑpsi old-fashioned or less technical term for edema Example sentencesExamples - About a year ago, edible mustard oil laced with a cheap chemical substance became a public health issue when it was revealed that it led to development of dropsy.
- It was said to be a cure for dropsy and bladder stones.
- The leaves are bitter and are used as a remedy for ophthalmia, ulcers, dropsy, cholera and beriberi associated with a weakness of the heart.
- Cures using herbs for diseases such as fever, jaundice, dropsy and leprosy are enumerated.
- When William Withering, a Shropshire physician and botanist, heard how a man with dropsy had recovered after drinking a herbal medicine that had been brewed from foxglove, he had to know exactly how the plant had worked.
- Dr Johnson was overweight and suffered from chronic bronchitis, gout and dropsy, as well as nervous tics and compulsive gesticulations.
- Disease manifestations, such as fever, dropsy, diarrhea, or cyanosis, were used as names of diseases.
- After that, despite my best efforts, Hernandez succumbed to dropsy and Eduardo developed terrible fungus which consumed his fins and turned his beautiful blue body brown.
- We discovered two cases of cholera, one of TB, one of the dreaded lurgy while another was afflicted with a dropsy so massive we had no choice but to put him to sleep.
- Mediaeval monks were aware of the benefits of salt mud and concentrated sea water and used them to treat rheumatism, dropsy and obesity.
- Bright separated dropsies of renal origin from dropsies due to other causes, such as heart and liver disease.
- Having recognized her symptoms as heart disease and dropsy because they led to his mother's death, he knew what could relieve her pain and gave her a medicine made from a special herb called foxglove.
- It is applied against epilepsy, paralysis, dropsy, etc.
- These included abortion, asthma, dropsy, sterility, cancer, dysmenorrhea, melancholy, empyema, worms, and jaundice to name only a few.
- She suffered from gout and dropsy for many years, though her death in 1619 was sudden.
- From such examination, physicians considered that they could identify problems ranging from jaundice to dropsy, diphtheria, pregnancy, and anxiety.
- When he set out for Portugal in 1754, in the vain hope of recovering his health, Fielding was suffering so greatly from gout, dropsy, asthma, and other complications that he had to be carried aboard the Queen of Portugal.
- To explain Sophia's increasing size and necessary absence away from the family, the king was told that she was bloated due to dropsy and had to be sent away to recover.
- In the 1925 edition of Osler's text, respiratory failure was described as ‘frothy pulmonary edema that resembles serum, not the sanguinous transudative edema fluid seen in dropsy or congestive heart failure’.
- I think very much that your little guy has dropsy.
OriginMiddle English: shortening of idropesie, earlier form of obsolete hydropsy, via Old French and Latin from Greek hudrōps ‘dropsy’, from hudōr ‘water’. nounˈdräpsēˈdrɑpsi British informal A tip or bribe. 〈英，非正式〉小费；贿金 McCloy's little dropsy for services rendered 麦克洛伊为所提供的服务付的一点小费。 Synonyms gratuity, baksheesh, bonus, little extra, bit extra, present, gift, reward, inducement
Origin1930s: slang, elaborated form of slang drop ‘a bribe’. |