Word Meanings - ANASARCA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

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• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• TISSUED
  Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
• EFFUSION
  1. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden. 2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• SERUM-THERAPY
  The treatment of disease by the injection of blood serum from immune animals.
• INELASTICITY
  Want of elasticity.
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• SERUM
  The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc. A thin watery fluid, containing more or less albumin, secreted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum. Blood serum, the pale yellowish fluid
• OCCASIONABLE
  Capable of being occasioned or caused. Barrow.
• DROPSY
  An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison. (more info) idropisie, F. hydropisie, L. hydropisis, fr. Gr. Water, and cf.
• SWELL
  1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
• OCCASIONALLY
  In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. Stewart. The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller.
• SWELLDOM
  People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
• TISSUE
  One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. Note: The term tissue is also often applied
• INELASTIC
  Not elastic.
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• OCCASIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts. The... occasional writing
• OCCASIONER
  One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces. Bp. Sanderson.
• SWELLING
  an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;
• OCCASIONALITY
  Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence.
• INTERCELLULAR
  Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• UNICELLULAR
  Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• INTERTISSUED
  Interwoven. Shak.
• UNSWELL
  To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• PERICELLULAR
  Surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells.
• INTRACELLULAR
  Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.
• BOSWELLISM
  The style of Boswell.