ANASARCA

ANAS'ARCA, noun [Gr. in or between, and flesh.]A species of dropsy, from a serous humor spread between the skin and flesh; or an accumulation of lymph in the cellular membrane, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

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anasarca. Anasarca, n. a kind of dropsy

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‖An′a‐sar″ca (�), n. [] (Med.) Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.