ANGIOEDEMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angioedema mean? 

• ANGIOEDEMA (noun)
  The noun ANGIOEDEMA has 1 sense:

1. recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs

  Familiarity information: ANGIOEDEMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGIOEDEMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

angioedema; atrophedema; giant hives; periodic edema; Quincke's edema

Hypernyms ("angioedema" is a kind of...):

dropsy; edema; hydrops; oedema (swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities)

 Context examples 

In type II hereditary angioedema, the C1 inhibitor is dysfunctional and its plasma levels may be normal or elevated.

(Hereditary Angioedema Types I and II, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in the F12 gene are associated with angioedema, hereditary, type III.

(F12 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

In type I hereditary angioedema, the plasma levels of C1 inhibitor are decreased.

(Hereditary Angioedema Types I and II, NCI Thesaurus)