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Webster 1828 Edition


Edematous

EDEM'ATOUS

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Adj.
[Gr. a tumor; to swell.] Swelling with a serous humor; dropsical. An edematous tumor is white, soft and insensible.

Definition 2024


edematous

edematous

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Adjective

edematous (comparative more edematous, superlative most edematous)

  1. (medicine) Afflicted with edema
    • 1988, January 8, “James Krohe Jr.”, in Reading: Last Among First Ladies:
      [] Mary grew nearly blind in her sixties, in part because constant weeping had caused her corneas to become edematous.