oedema
IPA: oʊdˈɛmʌ
noun
- (British spelling) Alternative form of edema [(American spelling, pathology) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity.]
Examples of "oedema" in Sentences
- Histology shows oedema in the stroma.
- His death was due to pulmonary oedema.
- One case reported of oedema of the feet.
- Inhalation of vapors may cause lung oedema.
- It manifests as pulmonary or cerebral oedema.
- It is used for the treatment of oedema and hypertension.
- Hepburn's limbs began to swell with protein deficiency oedema.
- This results in leakage from the capillaries leading to oedema.
- A post mortem biopsy reveals severe oedema and hemorrhagic necrosis.
- In both instances there was oedema of the lungs and froth in the trachea.
- After all, before being a chutney-ferret was legal nobody ever died of pulmonary oedema, did they?
- The application of cupping-glasses and bands causes veinous stasis and thus an oedema is formed round the injured area.
- Malnutrition can be recognized by clinical signs (such as oedema and micronutrient deficiencies) and by anthropometry (body measurements).
- The oedema, which is accumulation of fluid, in Basu's brain has been arrested, doctors said, adding that he has been able to take in 40 per cent of the supplied oxygen.
- The 33-year-old, who was found dead in his apartment in Mallorca on Saturday, suffered a build-up of fluid in the lungs known as pulmonary oedema, which is believed to be the result of an undetected heart defect.
- Although the final verdict is still pending, the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, or NICE, said that while Lucentis is effective in treating diabetic macular oedema, the drug's elevated price was problematic.
- Famine Oedema has been shown in this investigation as in previous investigations to precede death from starvation by a period of three to four months, following some radical change in the intake, so the incidence of famine oedema is a good way to measure the degree of inadequate diet.
- For you it seems "unlikely" that a pulmonary oedema, a heart failure leading to build-up of fluid in the lungs, would not be causally related to "dark appetites" and "private vice" -- which is to say, going out clubbing, getting a bit high, and hooking up with someone you've just met.