Word: edema
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...rose, the doctors still had more drugs in reserve to beat back the rejection mechanism, and they stepped up his cobalt-60 treatments. Washkansky's liver shrank to nearer normal size; Denise's heart and his kidneys worked so well together that he lost 20 Ibs. of edema fluid...
...shoot Syrettes of morphine into mangled men. He allowed himself only one Syrette for his own wounds, for fear that he might dull his mind and hamper his work. At dawn, the job done, Joel recalls looking at himself: hands encrusted with blood to the wrists, legs thick with edema and dirty bandages. He lay under a tree and cried for the first time since he was a boy in Winston-Salem...
...paper Newhouse chain, a puckish bon vivant and raconteur who spent his winters holding forth at Manhattan's "21," his summers traveling to faraway places, all the while striving to put his own plays up in lights (Gentlemen of the Press), but with slight success; of pulmonary edema; in Manhattan...
...years, whose Paris pleasure dome introduced to the world such stars as Maurice Chevalier and Fernandel, but was most famed for tableaux of statuesque girls in scanty costumes pasteurized enough for the tourist family trade without losing all the spice of Gallic life; of a pulmonary edema; in Paris...
That afternoon, Trimmer and a staff pathologist did an autopsy and noted an odor of ether in the child's lungs. She was not known to have had ether, but the doctors did not mention the odor in their report. They listed "gross pulmonary edema" (waterlogging of the lungs) as the cause of death...