Noun:

உடலில் நீர் வீக்கம்,

oedema's Usage Examples:

oedemaiction of airway edema is not always possible but the presence of stridor and/or facial edema may be a clue.

Lymphoedema sufferers were prone to the skin infection cellulitis, for which they had to be monitored.

We find at this early stage oedema of the part.

Bainbridge suggests that a retention of metabolic products may cause the oedema in renal disease, Bradford having previously shown that loss of a certain amount of renal tissue caused retention of metabolic products in the tissues.

There is general engorgement and oedema of the lungs, with pneumonic patches varying in size and irregularly distributed.

Welch produced oedema of the lungs experimentally by increasing the pressure in the pulmonary vessels by ligature of the aorta and its branches, but this raised the blood pressure only about one-tenth of an atmosphere, while in some of Loeb's experiments the osmotic pressure, due to retained metabolic products, was equal to over thirty atmospheres.

Repeated USS abdomen revealed persistent oedematous gall bladder along with mild splenomegaly.

The lungs are engorged and oedematous, and often show haemorrhages.

It wastes in the disease known as " myxoedema," and the above product gathers in the tissues, in that disease, to such an extent as to give rise to what has been termed a " solid oedema.

It is probable that the kidneys also have an internal secretion, and that the great oedema sometimes found in kidney disease is rather due to the action of some proteid body resembling in its effects the streptococcus anti-toxin, than to accumulation of water due to imperfect action of the kidney.

The local oedema seen in some nervous affections might be explained on the hypothesis of increased metabolic activity in these areas due to some local nervous stimulation.

Thus differences in osmotic pressure may be much more powerful in producing oedema than mere differences in blood pressure.

Synonyms:

puffiness, Quincke"s edema, dropsy, cerebral edema, scleredema, lump, hydrops, anasarca, swelling, atrophedema, papilledema, angioedema, lymphedema, chemosis, brain edema, periodic edema, edema, cystoid macular edema, giant hives,

Antonyms:

elegance,