Difference between Oedema and Dropsy

OEDEMA vs DROPSY: NOUN

Swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD.
An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
In fish-culture, a disease of young trout.
In botany, a disease in succulent plants caused by an excess of water.
In medicine, a morbid accumulation of watery liquid in any cavity of the body or in the tissues. See edema, anasarca., and ascites.
Edema. No longer in scientific use.
Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue

Myelopathy, Polyuria, Alkalosis, Cardiac tamponade, Lichen planus, Ecchymosis, Rhinorrhea, Papilledema, Pitting, Hydrops, Angio, Pulmonary, Swelling, Dropsy, Edema

Dysentry, Lumbago, Coryza, Sickness, Typhoid, Indigestion, Diarrhoea, Bronchopneumonia, Ailment, Jaundice, Malady, Catarrh, Scarlatinal, Edema, Oedema

Cholestasis, Myelopathy, Polyuria, Alkalosis, Cardiac tamponade, Lichen planus, Ecchymosis, Rhinorrhea, Papilledema, Pitting, Hydrops, Angio, Pulmonary, Swelling, Edema

Tetany, Dysentry, Lumbago, Coryza, Sickness, Typhoid, Indigestion, Diarrhoea, Bronchopneumonia, Ailment, Malady, Catarrh, Scarlatinal, Edema, Oedema

Denervated muscles, Iontophoresis, Hyperidrosis, Urology or oedema prevention.
Oedema or malnutrition should be treated if present.
There were no hepatic flaps or dependent oedema.
Caution: hypotension, left ventricular failure, acute pulmonary oedema.
Inflammation, protein synthesis and the development of oedema.
WOMAK index and oedema by supra patellar size.
The UK prospective study ofcerebral oedema complicating diabeticketoacidosis.
Interventions for varicosities and leg oedema in pregnancy.
The most extreme cases of altitude sickness result in High Altitude Pulmonary Oedema (HAPE) or High Altitude Cerebral Oedema (HACE).
In the late stage of oedema, the tissue fluid can no longer be displaced, so that this is known as non-pitting oedema.

This combination indicates stomach trouble, epilepsy, madness, dropsy, impetigo, leprosy, consumption, or elephantiasis.
Used in making medicines to treat edema, dropsy, boils, sores, and gas.
This summer he has been growing worse, and lately dropsy set in.
Some cases combine dropsy testimony and false claims of observed criminal activity.
Olsen has been in ill health since last spring with dropsy.
Death resulted from dropsy after an illness of four months duration.
Extracts have been administered for the relief of dropsy.
His disease is general dropsy and chronic pneumonia.
Died of dropsy at residence on Franklin St.
Although discourtesy dropsy hawthorn be nasty to detect, particularly in an heavy person, monumental dropsy is rattling evident as lump takes on preposterous proportions.