‖ hydrothorax Path.
(haɪdrəʊˈθɔəræks)
[Medical L., f. Gr. ὑδρο- hydro- b + θώραξ chest. F. hydrothorax.]
A disease characterized by an effusion of serous fluid into one or both of the pleural cavities; dropsy of the chest.
| 1793 Beddoes Let. Darwin 56 [This] may be employed with probable advantage..in Anasarca and Hydrothorax, after the evacuation of the water. 1807 M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (ed. 7) 55 A watery fluid is not uncommonly found in one or both cavities of the chest, forming the disease called hydrothorax. 1876 tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 225 Hydrothorax, dropsy of the thoracic cavity. |
Hence hydrothoˈracic a. (Mayne 1855).