Dropsical [adjective]

It weighed several tons, and its tyres were like dropsical life-belts.

This ready, though raw wench, gave an instance of this, and improved on the dropsical hint I had given her.

The lady's seeming plumpness was owing to a dropsical disorder, and to the round posture she lay in—very likely, truly.

His asthma tormented him day and night, and dropsical symptoms made their appearance.

M. Chailly tells us, that in thirteen cases of convulsions nine were first pregnancies, and seven of the females were dropsical.

In the course of a month the dropsical symptoms returned, and were again removed by the same medicine.

Very much deformed; asthma of several years continuance, but now dropsical to a great degree.

The increase of the dropsical symptoms now made it necessary to repeat the Digitalis.

In the last stage of a phthisis pulmonalis became dropsical.

In the last stage of a life hurried to a termination by free living, dropsical symptoms became the most distressing.