HYDROPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrops mean? 

• HYDROPS (noun)
  The noun HYDROPS has 1 sense:

1. swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities

  Familiarity information: HYDROPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

dropsy; edema; hydrops; oedema

Hypernyms ("hydrops" is a kind of...):

lump; puffiness; swelling (an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hydrops"):

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

lymphedema (swelling (usually in the legs) caused by lymph accumulating in the tissues in the affected areas)

scleredema (a skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face)

cystoid macular edema (a specific pattern of swelling in the central retina)

anasarca (generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue)

chemosis (edema of the mucous membrane of the eyeball and eyelid lining)

papilledema (swelling of the optic disc (where the optic nerve enters the eyeball); usually associated with an increase in intraocular pressure)

brain edema; cerebral edema (swelling of the brain due to the uptake of water in the neuropile and white matter)

 Context examples 

A rare congenital disorder, this is the lethal variant of multiple pterygium syndrome, characterized by severe athrogryposis, pterygium, akinesia and often hydrops fetalis and cystic hygroma.

(Lethal Multiple Pterygium Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

It results in hydrops fetalis, severe anemia, hepatosplenomegaly, heart defects, and genitourinary abnormalities.

(Hemobglobin Bart's Hydrops, NCI Thesaurus)