See Also: hydropic(dictionary)
hydropic(medicine)
hydropic degeneration(medicine)
un-Latin(dictionary)
Latin(2)(dictionary)
Latin(1)(dictionary)
neo-latin(medicine)
latin(medicine)
Latin America(dictionary)
Latin 2, adjective(dictionary)

Latin American (oh) and hydropic (iou)


Latin American (oh)



adj
relating to South or Central America, or its people

hydropic (iou)



hydropic adjective & noun. LME.
[Old French ydropique, -ike from Latin hydropicus from Greek hudropikos, from hudrops HYDROPS: see -IC. In 16 conformed (along with French hydropique) to Latin spelling.]
A. adjective.
Oedematous, dropsical. LME.
fig. Insatiable; very thirsty. LME-M18.
Containing a lot of water; swollen. M17.
That cures dropsy. L17-E18.
Special collocations: hydropic degeneration: in which a cell is swollen with so much excess water that its cytoplasm appears clear and homogeneous.
b. noun.
A person with dropsy. Formerly, the dropsical people as a class. Now rare. LME.
A medicine for curing dropsy. Long rare or obsolete. L17.
hydropical adjective (now rare or obsolete) = HYDROPIC adjective 1,2,3 M16.