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English
Etymology
From anasarca + -ous.
Adjective
anasarcous (not comparable)
- Belonging to, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.
1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R Royston , and B Took, , →OCLC:The Anasarcous Hydrocele may be known by the splendour, softness and thickness of the Scrotum
References
“anasarcous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.