লক্ষ্য করুন: এই এন্ট্রির অনুবাদ বর্তমানে মান পর্যালোচনার অধীনে রয়েছে, তাই কিছু বিষয়বস্তু সাময়িকভাবে শুধুমাত্র ইংরেজিতে প্রদর্শিত হচ্ছে।
এই এন্ট্রিটি এখনও আপনার ভাষায় অনুবাদ করা হয়নি, তাই নিচে মূল লেখাটি দেখানো হচ্ছে।
dropsy
This term carries a heavy historical weight, evoking the era of pre-modern medicine where symptoms were treated as diseases rather than manifestations of underlying organ failure. It suggests a state of systemic bloating and lethargy, often associated with the elderly or those with chronic heart and kidney ailments in 19th-century literature.
Because it is an archaic medical designation, it is rarely used in contemporary clinical settings, having been replaced by the precise term edema. It now appears primarily in historical texts or period dramas to signal a lack of modern diagnostic knowledge.
Meanings
Examples
The old physician diagnosed the patient with dropsy.
His legs were swollen and pitted, a clear sign of dropsy.
The apothecary suggested a herbal diuretic to treat the dropsy.
She read in the old medical journal about the treatment of dropsy.
The patient had a bloated abdomen due to severe dropsy.
Is this swelling in the ankles a symptom of dropsy?
The Victorian era saw many patients misdiagnosed with dropsy.