hydrops

Other forms of hydrops

plural

hydropses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hydrops

What does hydrops mean?

hydrops means "swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities".

How many syllables are in hydrops?

hydrops has 2 syllables: hy-drops. The stress falls on "hy".

What is another word for hydrops?

Close synonyms include edema, oedema, dropsy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hydrops a common word?

hydrops is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.