dropsy
noun /ˈdrɒpsi/
/ˈdrɑːpsi/
[uncountable] (old-fashioned)- a condition in which liquid collects in the spaces inside the body and makes it swell (= become larger or rounder than normal)
水肿 词源Middle English: shortening of idropesie, earlier form of obsolete hydropsy, via Old French and Latin from Greek hudrōps ‘dropsy’, from hudōr ‘water’.