Hydrops, huius hydropis, pen. prod. m. g. Hor. The disease called the dropsle. proceeding of the litter, being so much cooled that it can not sufficiently turne % iuice concocted in the stomacke to perfect bloud, but to a watrie or windie substance: by occasion whereof either the whole bodie, or the belly and certaine other partes swelleth. Of it be three kindes. Alcites.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
hydrops, ōpis, m., = u(/drwy, the dropsy, Cels. 3, 21; Hor. C. 2, 2, 13; Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 8, 96 sqq.—Plur.: hydrōpes, um, the several kinds of dropsy, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 8, 98.