edema

English

Edema of the right hand due to an allergic reaction

Alternative forms

• oedema (UK), œdema (UK, nonstandard)

Etymology

From New Latin edema, from Ancient Greek οἴδημα (oídēma, “swelling”), from οἰδέω (oidéō, “I swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈdiː.mə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːmə

Noun

edema (plural edemas or edemata)

1. (American spelling, pathology) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity.

   dependent edema

   lower extremity edema

   • 1991, Albrecht M. Ehrly, Therapeutic Hemorheology, page 115:

     In the patients with myocardial edemas [247, 471] it was shown that, despite a considerable loss of fluid via the kidneys after the intravenous administration of a short-acting and very effective diuretic (furosemide), there was no increase in the blood and plasma viscosities.

   • 2002, Peter Lanzer, “26: Peripheral Vascular Disease”, in Peter Lanzer, Eric J. Topol, editors, Pan Vascular Medicine: Integrated Clinical Management, page 389:

     In particular, changes in color and temperature, edemas, and ulcerations are noted. Palpation is applied as needed. In this chapter, only two skin and body surface changes will be discussed: peripheral edemas and ulcerations.

   • 2015, Hans Scholz, Arteriovenous Access Surgery: Ensuring Adequate Vascular Access for Hemodialysis, page 185:

     Local lymph edemas can often be found on the inside of a looped graft.

2. (American spelling, botany) A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water.

Synonyms

• (pathology): hydrops; dropsy (archaic), hydropsy (archaic)

Derived terms

• acroedema
• angioedema
• angio-edema
• antiedema
• blepharedema
• cerebral edema
• edemagenic
• edematic
• edemato-
• edemogen
• leucoedema
• leukoedema
• malignant edema
• myxedema
• papilledema
• pulmonary edema
• Quincke's edema
• scleredema

 

Translations

excessive accumulation of serum in tissue

• Afrikaans: edeem
• Armenian: այտուց (hy) (aytucʻ)
• Bulgarian: оток (bg) m (otok)
• Catalan: edema (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水腫／水肿 (zh) (shuǐzhǒng), 浮腫／浮肿 (zh) (fúzhǒng)

• Czech: edém (cs) m, otok (cs) m
• Danish: ødem (da) n
• Dutch: oedeem (nl) n
• Esperanto: edemo
• Finnish: turvotus (fi), pöhö (fi), ödeema (fi), edeema
• French: œdème (fr) m
• Galician: edema m
• German: Ödem (de) n
• Hindi: शोफ (hi) (śoph), जलशोफ (jalśoph), जलंधर (hi) (jalandhar) (rare), इस्तिस्क़ा (istisqā) (rare), शोथ (hi) (śoth) (uncommon, ambigous), जलोदर (hi) (jalodar) (nonstandard)
• Hungarian: ödéma (hu)
• Indonesian: edema (id)
• Italian: edema (it) m
• Japanese: 浮腫 (ja) (ふしゅ, fushu), 浮腫み (むくみ, mukumi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: avbendî (ku) f, nexweşiya avbendî f

• Latvian: tūska (lv) f
• Malay: ايدما (édema)
• Malayalam: നീര് (ml) (nīrŭ)
• Maori: puku kōwhao
• Old English: wætersēocnes f, wæterādl f
• Persian: خیز (fa) (xiz), آماز (āmāz)
• Polish: obrzęk (pl) m, opuchlizna (pl) f
• Portuguese: edema (pt) m
• Russian: отёк (ru) m (otjók)
• Spanish: edema (es) m, hidropesía (es) f
• Swedish: ödem (sv) n
• Tagalog: pamamanas
• Tarifit: areffix m
• Tocharian B: yweru
• Turkish: ödem (tr)
• Tày: bau, fộc, fù
• Ukrainian: на́бряк m (nábrjak)
• Vietnamese: phù (vi), bủng (vi)
• Walloon: udinme (wa) m, infleure (wa) f, aiwlene f

in botany

• Hindi: शौफ (śauph)
• Polish: bielmo (pl) n

Anagrams

• Meade, Medea, adeem, meade

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin edema, from Ancient Greek οἴδημα (oídēma, “swelling”), οἰδέω (oidéō, “I swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈedema/
• Rhymes: -ma, -a
• Hyphenation: édé‧ma

Noun

édéma (plural edema-edema, first-person possessive edemaku, second-person possessive edemamu, third-person possessive edemanya)

1. (pathology) edema, oedema: An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity.

Alternative forms

• edem
• édəma (Standard Malay)
• udem
• udêma

Derived terms

• edema cerebri
• edema otak
• edema paru
• edema pulmoner

 

Further reading

• “edema” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From New Latin edema, from Ancient Greek οἴδημα (oídēma, “swelling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈdɛ.ma/, /ˈɛ.de.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma, -ɛdema
• Hyphenation: e‧dè‧ma, è‧de‧ma

Noun

edema m (plural edemi)

1. (pathology) edema

Derived terms

• edematico / edematoso

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• œdema (obsolete)

Etymology

From New Latin edema, from Ancient Greek οἴδημα (oídēma, “swelling”), from οἰδέω (oidéō, “to swell”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈdẽ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈdẽ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈde.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈde.mɐ/ [iˈðe.mɐ]

Noun

edema m (plural edemas)

1. oedema (excessive accumulation of serum in tissue)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin edema, from Ancient Greek οἴδημα (oídēma, “swelling”), from οἰδέω (oidéō, “to swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈdema/ [eˈð̞e.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: e‧de‧ma

Noun

edema m (plural edemas)

1. (pathology) edema

Further reading

• “edema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28