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What is an anasarca?

What is an anasarca? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (medicine) Severe generalised oedema.
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Also in the cases of coma with anasarca, either the acute, subacute or chronic form the blood pressure is not raised as a rule.
A 51 year-old man with a history of presumed alcoholic cirrhosis presented to the emergency department with anasarca.
If so, why shall we regard anasarca, ending in ascites, as a general disease?
Physical examination was remarkable for massive anasarca, with edema prominent up to his chest.
The external autopsy examination revealed anasarca with ascites, jaundice, diffuse petechiae and purpura, and a presacral decubitus ulcer.
In anasarca the swelling is nonsensitive, while sensitive in the acute swelling of farcy.

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