Word: edema
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From then on, Franco's condition worsened. Within two days doctors confirmed that the dictator was suffering from congestive heart failure, the lessening ability of his weakened heart to pump blood. Next, he showed signs of pulmonary edema, the accumulation of fluid in the tiny air sacs of the lungs. Then, reported the doctors, Franco, who remained conscious, began to hemorrhage, or bleed, internally and to suffer from both a loss of intestinal activity and ascites, an accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity...
...Christina's only brother, Alexander Onassis, was killed in a plane crash at Athens airport. One year later, Christina's mother, who had followed her sister's example by marrying Stavros Niarchos, died mysteriously of pulmonary edema. Finally, Ari himself succumbed to bronchial pneumonia in Paris earlier this year. "I think she wanted to make a complete break with the past," says Baron de Rosnay of Christina's unexpected wedding...
...used as an oxidizer (or combustion agent) in Apollo's small attitude-control thrusters. If it is inhaled, the gas may cause only slight pain and coughing at first; but later, as it works its way into the lung tissue, it can lead to burnlike damage called pulmonary edema, filling the lungs with fluid. During their night aboard the carrier, the astronauts experienced considerable discomfort from coughing and were given cortisone in order to reduce lung inflammation. Next day when the carrier docked at Pearl Harbor, the three were driven to Honolulu's Tripler Army Medical Center. Waving...
...coroner gave the cause of death as an edema (swelling) of the brain, a finding that is being investigated further in an inquest...
...time he could not rise from his bed. His wife Jacqueline rushed in and then called for help. At 11:40, before a doctor could get there, Pablo Picasso was dead. Dr. Georges Ranee, who arrived shortly afterward, attributed his death to a heart attack brought on by pulmonary edema, fluid in the lungs...