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• ASCITES (Gr. aaKLTl7s, dropsical, from a.QKOS, bag; sc. v6aos, disease)

ASCITES (Gr. aaKLTl7s, dropsical, from a.QKOS, bag; sc. v6aos, disease)  , the See also:

• TERM

term in See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine applied to an effusion of non-inflammatory fluid within the peritoneum . It is not a disease in itself, but is one of the manifestations of disease elsewhere—usually in the kidneys, See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart, or in connexion with the See also:

• LIVER (O. Eng. lifer; cf. cognate forms, Dutch lever, Ger. Leber, Swed. lefver, &c.; the O. H. Ger. forms are libara, lipora, &c.; the Teut. word has been connected with Gr. i'prap and Lat. jecur)

liver (portal obstruction) . Portal obstruction is the commonest cause of well-marked See also:

• ASCITES (Gr. aaKLTl7s, dropsical, from a.QKOS, bag; sc. v6aos, disease)

ascites . It is produced by (1) diseases within the liver, as cirrhosis (usually alcoholic) and See also:

• CANCER (" THE CRAB ")
• CANCER, LUIS (d. 1549)
• CANCER, or CARCINOMA (from Lat. cancer, Gr. KapKivwga, an eating ulcer)

cancer; (2) diseases outside the liver, as cancer of See also:

• STOMACH (Gr. vrbsaxos from arbga, a mouth)

stomach, duodenum or See also:

• PANCREAS (Gr. rag, all; 1cpks, flesh)

pancreas, causing pressure on the portal vein, or enlarged glands in the fissure of the liver producing the same effect . Ascites is one of the See also:

• LATE

late symptoms in the disease, and precedes See also:

• DROPSY (contracted from the old word hydropisy, derived from the Gr. 154w¢; i Swp, water, and appearance)

dropsy of the See also:

• LEG
• LEG (a word of Scandinavian origin, from the Old Norwegian leggr, cf. Swed. lagg, Dan. laeg; the O. Eng. word was sceanca, shank)

leg, which may come on later, due to pressure on the large See also:

• VEINS

veins in the abdominal cavity by the ascitic fluid . In ascites due to heart disease, the dropsy of the feet and legs precedes the ascites, and there will be a See also:

• HISTORY

history of palpitation, shortness of breath, and perhaps cough . In the ascites of See also:

• KIDNEY

kidney troubles there will be a history of See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general oedema—puffiness of See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face and eyes on rising in the See also:

• MORNING

morning probably having attracted the See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention of the patient or his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends previously . Other less See also:

• COMMON

common causes of ascites are chronic See also:

• PERITONITIS

peritonitis, either tuberculous in the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young, or due to cancer in the aged, and more rarely still pernicious See also:

• ANAEMIA (from Gr. ay-, privative, and aiµa, blood)

anaemia .