a. and sb. Med. [f. ANTI- 3 + Gr. ὑδρωπικ-ός f. ὔδρωπ-α (ὔδραψ) dropsy.] A. adj. Tending to counteract dropsy. B. sb. (sc. medicine, etc.)
1742. Short, Dropsy, in Phil. Trans., XLII. 224. An antihydropic stomachic Mixture.
1853. in Mayne, Exp. Lex.
