The Collaborative International Dictionary
Edematous \E*de"ma*tous\, or Edematose \E*de"ma*tose`\, a. (Med.) Same as [oe]dematous.
Wiktionary
a. (context medicine English) Afflicted with edema
WordNet
adj. swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid [syn: dropsical]
Usage examples of "edematous".
A diagnosis was made of multilocular ovarian cyst or edematous myoma of the uterus, and on the morning of December 7, 1890, an operation was performed.
I saw the bulging face of the jumbo jet was that it looked like an obese or edematous gomer.
She was a little edematous on the foot, so that clear fluid rather than blood began to run from the wound.
There was a cut on her left cheek extending nearly to her ear, and her right cheek was swollen, its edematous flesh mottled with an ugly purplish color.
Het ankles were grotesquely edematous, swollen like sausages and bruised an angry purple.
The edematous condition was by this means much reduced in a short time.
On April 18, 1881, Keith, late of Edinburgh, now of London, successfully removed an edematous myoma, together with the uterus, which was 42 pounds in weight.