1. a condition in which liquid collects in the spaces inside the body and makes it swell (= become larger or rounder than normal) Synonym : oedema
   Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of idropesie, earlier form of obsolete hydropsy, via Old French and Latin from Greek hudrōps ‘dropsy’, from hudōr ‘water’.

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