angioneurotic edema
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angioneurotic edema
(¦an·jē·ō·nə′räd·ik i′dē·mə)
(medicine) Acute, localized accumulations of tissue fluid causing swellings around the face; condition may be due either to heredity or a food allergy.
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an·gi·o·neu·rot·ic edema
(ăn'jē-ō-nʊ-rŏt'ĭk, -nyʊ-)
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Recurring episodes of noninflammatory swelling of the skin, mucous membranes, viscera, and brain, occasionally accompanied by arthralgia, purpura, or fever. Also called angioedema, atrophedema, Bannister's disease, giant urticaria, Quincke's disease.
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angioneurotic edema
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(angioedema, giant urticaria, Quincke’s disease) the spontaneous swelling of the lips, cheeks, eyelids, tongue, soft palate, pharynx, and glottis, frequently associated with allergy to foods or drugs and lasting from several hours to several days. Involvement of the glottis results in obstruction of the airway.
Angioneurotic edema. (Regezi/Sciubba/Po-grel, 2000)
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