oedema
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- Rhymes: -iːmə
Noun
oedema (plural oedemas or oedemata)
- (British spelling) Alternative form of edema
- 2004, Waltari, "What I Really Know", Rare Species.
- Crazy Angelina / Is eating her own oedema / And I'm not here to take it anymore
- 2024, Jennifer Davidson, Beth Shepherd, Sunderarajan Jayaraman, Practice Long Cases for the Part B Final FRCR Examination:
- However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenhancement).
- 2004, Waltari, "What I Really Know", Rare Species.