Crossword-Solution: DEMA 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Then came the dropsical ones, inflated like wine-skins; and beside some stretchers there dangled hands twisted by rheumatism, while from others protruded feet swollen by œdema beyond all recognition, looking, in fact, like bags full of rags.

The more open the structure of the tissue of the part, the greater is the amount of swelling--witness the marked degree of œdema that occurs in such parts as the scrotum or the eyelids.

The hyperæmia is kept up from twenty to twenty-two hours out of the twenty-four, and in the intervals the limb is elevated to get rid of the œdema and to empty it of impure blood, and so make room for a fresh supply of healthy blood when the bandage is re-applied.

When pus has formed in deeper parts, and before it has reached the surface, œdema of the overlying skin is frequently present, and the skin pits on pressure.

Massage, passive movement, hot and cold douching, and other measures, may be necessary to get rid of the chronic œdema, adhesions of tendons, and stiffness of joints which sometimes remain.