GIANT HIVES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does giant hives mean? 

• GIANT HIVES (noun)
  The noun GIANT HIVES has 1 sense:

1. recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs

  Familiarity information: GIANT HIVES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIANT HIVES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

angioedema; atrophedema; giant hives; periodic edema; Quincke's edema

Hypernyms ("giant hives" is a kind of...):

dropsy; edema; hydrops; oedema (swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities)