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Dropsy vs Hydrops - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between dropsy and hydrops

is that dropsy is swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD while hydrops is the abnormal accumulation of serous fluid in a tissue or cavity.

dropsy

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (pathology) Swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD.
    • 1911 , Joseph Addison , :
    The disease under which Addison laboured appears to have been asthma. It became more violent after his retirement from office, and was now accompanied by dropsy .

    Derived terms

    * dropsical * dropsically

    hydrops

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (medicine) The abnormal accumulation of serous fluid in a tissue or cavity

    • See also

    * dropsy * edema