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Princeton's WordNet

  1. edematous, dropsicaladjective

    swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid

Wiktionary

  1. dropsicaladjective

    Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dropsy.

    Mrs Springer on her painful dropsical legs comes down talking. uE000242337uE001 John Updike, Rabbit is Rich.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Dropsicaladjective

    Diseased with a dropsy; hydropical; tending to a dropsy.

    Etymology: from dropsy.

    The diet of nephritick and dropsical persons ought to be such as is opposite to, and subdueth the alkalescent nature of the salts in the serum of the blood. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

ChatGPT

  1. dropsical

    Dropsical refers to being swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid in the body, especially beneath the skin or in the cavities of the body. It is typically associated with the condition known as "dropsy," an old term for edema.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dropsicaladjective

    diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient

  2. Dropsicaladjective

    of or pertaining to dropsy

  3. Etymology: [From Dropsy.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dropsical in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dropsical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7


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