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Fluid buildup
Answer for the clue "Fluid buildup ", 5 letters:
edema
Alternative clues for the word edema
Word definitions for edema in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
OEdema \[OE]*de"ma\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? a swelling, tumor, fr. ? to swell.] (Med.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue. [Written also edema .]
Usage examples of edema.
The mountain was almost 20,000 feet high and every month someone died of a cerebral edema and there were ways to prevent this.
She worries that she will never sleep, and that she will be too tired tomorrow, that this will weaken her system and she will succumb to the cerebral edema that is ready, she knows, to leap.
His legs were normal, too, showing neither edema nor any suggestion of thrombophlebitis.
My abscess patient, not unreasonably, wanted to know why I had squeezed his fingers, and the edema man asked again about his pills, wondering how they made him lose water.
Clayton Miller, the man whose severe pulmonary edema he and Steven Josephson had reversed by removing almost a unit of blood.
It was the point of triage for all manner of illnesses that rolled down the mountainside to their doorstep: broken bones, pulmonary and cerebral edema, frostbite, heart conditions, dysentery, snow blindness, and all sorts of infections, including STDs.
She went into more details, knowing Monk shared a background in medicine: low platelet counts, rising bilirubin levels, edema, muscle tenderness with bouts of rigidity around the neck and shoulders, bone infarctions, hepatosplenomegaly, audible murmurs in the heartbeat, and strange calcification of distal extremities and vitreous humor of the eyes.
Some few developed pulmonary edema, pneumonia, or even cerebral hemorrhaging if they went higher.
Every new increase in the vast imperial organism seemed to me an unsound growth, like a cancer or dropsical edema which would eventually cause our death.
There was also edema, a brain swelling that was being controlled by anti-inflammatories.
Their lips moved, forming words, like bubbles, that floated off-- subdural hematoma, edema, intracerebral hemorrhage, lesions, seizures, coma.
Lance Tolliver has had several episodes of high fever and edema, particularly of his affected limbs and facial structures.
Toxemia, Stress, Edema, Kidney Troubles, and just below your right big toe, Weight Problems, Anxiety and Thinning Hair.
But for Digen it was something like dying of pulmonary edema and trying not to wheeze.
There should be edema fluid in the alveolar spaces with disproportionate autolytic change of the respiratory epithelium.