Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dropsy

Dropsy , noun

[Old English dropsie, dropesie, Old French idropisie, French hydropisie, Latin hydropisis, from Greek {not transcribed} dropsy, from {not transcribed} water. See Water, and compare Hydropsy.]

(Medicine) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. — Dunglison