Crossword clues for dropsical
dropsical
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dropsical \Drop"si*cal\, a. [From Dropsy.]
Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.
Of or pertaining to dropsy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s; see dropsy + -ical.
Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dropsy.
WordNet
adj. swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid [syn: edematous]
Usage examples of "dropsical".
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.
The symptoms of the acute form are diminution or suppression of urine, dry skin, chills, thirst, pains in the loins, and a general dropsical, puffy condition of the system, especially manifesting itself in the earlier stages under the eyes, but gradually showing itself in the oedema, or swelling of the feet, and lower extremities generally.
By the side of these a dropsical man was ridding himself of his protuberance, while four or five canters of the other sex were quarrelling about a child they had stolen in the course of the evening.
But he is not passing water properly, and his physician thinks he is in danger of growing dropsical.
In your wife’s case, the edema—swelling—is dropsical in nature, not postural,” said Sir Edward firmly.