Dropsy
Bible Usage:
- dropsy used once.
- Bible Reference: Luke 14:2
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G5203 Used 1 time
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Dropsy
Mentioned only in Luke 14:2. The man afflicted with it was cured by Christ on the Sabbath.
Naves Topical Index
Dropsy
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dropsy
DROPSY, noun [L, Gr., water; the face. Formerly written hydropisy; whence by contraction, dropsy ] In medicine, an unnatural collection of water, in an part of the body, proceeding from a greater effusion of serum by the exhalant arteries, than the absorbents take up. It occurs most frequently in persons of lax habits, or in bodies debilitated by disease. The dropsy takes different names, according to the part affected; as ascites, or dropsy of the abdomen; hydrocephalus, or water in the head; anasarca, or a watery swelling over the whole body; etc.