Oedema

The application of cupping-glasses and bands causes veinous stasis and thus an oedema is formed round the injured area. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Famine Oedema has been shown in this investigation as in previous investigations to precede death from starvation by a period of three to four months, following some radical change in the intake, so the incidence of famine oedema is a good way to measure the degree of inadequate diet. ❋ Unknown (1947)

The oedema, which is accumulation of fluid, in Basu's brain has been arrested, doctors said, adding that he has been able to take in 40 per cent of the supplied oxygen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The 33-year-old, who was found dead in his apartment in Mallorca on Saturday, suffered a build-up of fluid in the lungs known as pulmonary oedema, which is believed to be the result of an undetected heart defect. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Malnutrition can be recognized by clinical signs (such as oedema and micronutrient deficiencies) and by anthropometry (body measurements). ❋ Unknown (1999)

After all, before being a chutney-ferret was legal nobody ever died of pulmonary oedema, did they? ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

Although the final verdict is still pending, the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, or NICE, said that while Lucentis is effective in treating diabetic macular oedema, the drug's elevated price was problematic. ❋ Goran Mijuk (2011)

For you it seems "unlikely" that a pulmonary oedema, a heart failure leading to build-up of fluid in the lungs, would not be causally related to "dark appetites" and "private vice" -- which is to say, going out clubbing, getting a bit high, and hooking up with someone you've just met. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Off the top of my head I can think of: viral infection, bacterial infection, cancer primary or secondary, chronic inflammation e.g. asbestosis, allergic reactions, bronchoconstriction, pulmonary oedema secondary to congestive heart failure. ❋ Carla (2010)

Because this morning I woke up looking like the Elephant Woman with an oedema in my right eyelid. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Women are subject to oedema and leucophlegmasiae; when pregnant they have difficult deliveries; their infants are large and swelled, and then during nursing they become wasted and sickly, and the lochial discharge after parturition does not proceed properly with the women. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These were discontinued after the 8th treatment when she developed angiogenic oedema. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I immediately went to the opthalmology department of the local hospital where, after tests, they told me I have papilloedema and macular oedema in that eye but the other one is fine. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I carry life-saving syringes of adrenalin but its administration is not without risk — the last time it caused me to have pulmonary oedema (in which the lungs fill up with fluid and blood). ❋ Unknown (2005)

I enjoyed the cleaning, though ideally I should do it in smaller bursts; it wasn't great for my oedema but it was fantastic for my sense of what I can achieve. ❋ Ailbhe (2004)

Rob and Janice and Dave and I got a taxi home I ain't walking 'cause my feet's too big - oedema and we sat around talking for a while, until Janice went home to her place and Dave retired to the Spare Oom. ❋ Ailbhe (2004)

I'm seriously considering using them sometimes when I'm not flying, just because they help with the oedema, I think and we found our gate and boarded. ❋ Ailbhe (2004)