oedema \oe*de"ma\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? a swelling, tumor, fr. ?
   to swell.] (Med.)
   A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular
   tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the
   subcutaneous cellular tissue. [Written also edema.]
   [1913 Webster]

	

	Edema \E*de"ma\, n. [NL.] (Med.)
   Same as [oe]dema. Edematous

	

	edema
     n : swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in
         tissue [syn: oedema, hydrops, dropsy]
     [also: oedemata (pl), edemata (pl)]

	

	170 Moby Thesaurus words for "edema":
   abscess, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement,
   accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, ague,
   amplification, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, appreciation,
   ascent, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, augmentation,
   backache, ballooning, bleeding, blennorhea, bloat, bloatedness,
   bloating, blowing up, boil, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, bump,
   bunion, cachexia, cachexy, carbuncle, chill, chills, colic,
   constipation, convulsion, corn, coughing, crescendo, cyanosis,
   cyst, development, diarrhea, diastole, dilatation, dilation,
   distension, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea,
   elevation, emaciation, enlargement, expansion, extension, fainting,
   fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flatulence, flatulency, flatus,
   flood, flux, furuncle, gain, gassiness, greatening, growth, gush,
   hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hike, hydrops, hypertension,
   hypotension, icterus, increase, increment, indigestion,
   inflammation, inflation, insomnia, intumescence, itching, jaundice,
   jump, labored breathing, leap, low blood pressure, lumbago, lump,
   marasmus, meteorism, mounting, multiplication, nasal discharge,
   nausea, necrosis, pain, paralysis, pimple, pock, productiveness,
   proliferation, pruritus, puff, puffiness, puffing, pustule, raise,
   rash, rheum, rise, rising, sclerosis, sebaceous cyst, seizure,
   shock, skin eruption, sneezing, snowballing, sore, spasm, spread,
   stretching, surge, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tabes,
   tachycardia, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor,
   turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism,
   tympany, up, upping, upset stomach, upsurge, upswing, uptrend,
   upturn, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, waxing, wen, widening,
   windiness