Word Meanings - ASCITES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum. Dunglison.

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• FLUID
  Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
• FLUIDAL
  Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; --
• FLUIDRACHM
  See S
• 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.
• SEROUS
  Thin; watery; like serum; as the serous fluids. Of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands, membranes, layers. See Serum. Serous membrane. See under Membrane.
• FLUIDITY
  The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aëriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class
• PERITONEUM
  The smooth serous membrane which lines the cavity of the abdomen, or the whole body cavity when there is no diaphragm, and, turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly closed, sac.
• FLUIDIZE
  To render fluid.
• FLUIDOUNCE
  See FLUID
• CAVITY
  1. Hollowness. The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin. 2. A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed
• FLUIDNESS
  The state of being flluid; fluidity.
• COLLECTION
  1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. A gathering of money for charitable
• ABDOMEN
  The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm
• COLLECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to collecting. The first twenty-five must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether.
• HYDROPERITONEUM
  See ASCITES
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• ANSEROUS
  Resembling a goose; silly; simple. Sydney Smith.
• MISRECOLLECTION
  Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
• RECOLLECTION
  1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which
• PASTEUR'S FLUID
  An artificial nutrient fluid invented by Pasteur for the study of alcoholic fermentation, but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other organisms. It contains all the elements of protoplasm, and was originally made of the ash of yeast,
• SEMIFLUID
  Imperfectly fluid. -- n.
• CONCAVITY
  A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.
• POST-ABDOMEN
  That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.
• PRECOLLECTION
  A collection previously made.
• MARGARYIZE; MARGARY'S FLUID
  To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate .