ascites
- n accumulation of serous fluid in peritoneal cavity
- Ultrasound clearly outlines the excess fluid (ascites) in the abdomen of patients with many types of disease.
- Then he injected abdominal fluid (ascites) resulting from the cancer into other rats.
- Lisser's most remarkable patient suffered from ascites (abdominal dropsy); flaccid heart, intestines and bladder; profuse menstrual bleeding; secondary anemia.