Noun
An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide." Margery Allingham
Attacks of breathlessness due to dropsy forced him to sleep upright in a chair, and doctors frequently tapped his abdomen to drain excess fluid. Source: Internet
Beri-beri, polyneuritis in birds, epidemic dropsy, scurvy, experimental scurvy in animals, infantile scurvy, ship beri-beri, pellagra. Source: Internet
Grieson and Mays, Chronology Olybrius died of dropsy after only seven months of rule. Source: Internet
In January 40 Domitius died of edema (dropsy) at Pyrgi. Source: Internet
On 15 August 1369, Philippa died of an illness similar to dropsy in Windsor Castle at the age of fifty-five. Source: Internet