Funny Diseases

Dropsy

Sounds like an affliction of tuckered-out puppies, but actually an accumulation of fluid beneath the skin, sometimes as a result of the gout. See also Old-Timey.

Added by Chris on July 6, 2009 | 16 people like this You Like This | Unlike

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It's also known in the medical world as ascites

Anon. on February 4, 2011

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