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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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The external autopsy examination revealed anasarca with ascites, jaundice, diffuse petechiae and purpura, and a presacral decubitus ulcer.
A 51 year-old man with a history of presumed alcoholic cirrhosis presented to the emergency department with anasarca.
Did he have diabetes, ascites, uraemia, anasarca, or heart failure?
If so, why shall we regard anasarca, ending in ascites, as a general disease?
In anasarca the swelling is nonsensitive, while sensitive in the acute swelling of farcy.
Animal bocaviruses have been shown to cause intrauterine infection, fetal anasarca and abortion in late gestation.

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