The accumulation in the chest is called hydrothorax, or dropsy of the chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

If this disease is not attended to at an early period, its usual termination is in hydrothorax, or dropsy of the chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

Like CCAMs, a fetal bronchopulmonary sequestration can also cause fetal hydrops, either from the mass effect or from a tension hydrothorax that results from fluid or lymph secretion from the bronchopulmonary sequestration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid] Reference

Serum may accumulate in the pericardium, owing to an obstruction of the cardiac veins, caused by hypertrophy of the substance of the heart; and when from this cause the pericardium becomes much distended with fluid, the pressure of this upon the flaccid auricles and large venous trunks may give rise to general anasarca, to hydrothorax or ascites, either separate or co-existing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

They both appeared to me to be cases of hydrothorax.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

"He has water in the chest cavity; it's called hydrothorax.".    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2] Reference

Asthma, or rather hydrothorax, anasarca, and symptoms of a diseased liver.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

Anasarcous legs and symptoms of hydrothorax, consequent to a tertian ague.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

A strong man; hydrothorax and swelled legs; in other respects not unhealthful.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

Symptoms of hydrothorax, at first obscurely, afterwards more distinctly marked.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

May not primary hydrothorax be much less frequent, than has commonly been imagined?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

At the date of this, when he first consulted me, the symptoms of hydrothorax were pretty obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

This does not disturb the stomach, and was used with success in cases of hydrothorax combined with anasarca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

This accumulation of blood in the lungs has, by some writers, been considered as an appearance belonging to idiopathic hydrothorax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

Dr. Cullen, whose authority is of the highest estimation, evidently enumerates symptoms of them in his definition and description of the hydrothorax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

The following case of hydrothorax will shew, that water may exist in the chest without the symptoms, which we have attributed to organic diseases of the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

The cough in hydrothorax, unlike that which attends organic diseases of the heart, is short and dry; the dyspnœa constant, and not subject to violent aggravations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

When phthisis is accompanied with anasarca, or when there is reason to suspect hydrothorax, the Digitalis will often relieve the sufferings, and prolong the life of the patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

Employed in nervous affections, and hectic fever; in hydrothorax, from its stimulating effect on the kidneys, and in diseases of the lungs, from its augmenting the absorbent forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Slide 20: Y 45 Goji: The Himalayan Health Secret with malignant melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, colorectal carcinoma, lung cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma and malignant hydrothorax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Dropsy, or edema of the skin, may occur beneath the chest or abdomen from heart insufficiency or from chronic collection of fluid in the chest or abdomen (hydrothorax, ascites, or anemia).    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

It seems probable, therefore, that those who have thought this collection of blood an appearance belonging to idiopathic hydrothorax, have mistaken for it the secondary hydrothorax produced by diseases of the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

It is probable, that the two diseases commonly arise in patients of opposite physical constitutions; the hydrothorax in subjects of a weak relaxed fibre; the organic diseases of the heart in a rigid and robust habit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

From this description of the symptoms it would appear, that there could be no great difficulty in distinguishing this from other diseases; yet probably it has sometimes been confounded with asthma, and very frequently with hydrothorax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

Dr. William Hamilton, the author of a valuable treatise on the digitalis purpurea, thinks the hydrothorax a more frequent disease than has commonly been imagined, because he conceives that it has often been mistaken for organic disease of the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

Thirty drops of this tincture is directed to be put into an ounce of mint-water for a draught to be taken twice or thrice a day, till it reduces the anasarca of the limbs, or removes the difficulty of breathing in hydrothorax, or till it induces sickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The next day I was taken to my father's bedside; the extreme weakness with which he spoke to me, combined with all the precautions taken in the last desperate treatment of his complaint -- acute hydrothorax -- made the whole scene appear like a dream to me, and I think I was too frightened and surprised to cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life — Volume 1] Reference

Two others, one of whom laboured under confirmed hydrothorax, and the other under a permanent and uniform difficulty of respiration, were not refreshed, or in any way served by the use of oxygen in the above quantity of four gallons a day for a fortnight, which I ascribed to the inirritability of the diseased lungs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The pressure of water upon the lungs, may possibly interrupt the free circulation of blood through their vessels, yet probably the same pressure would prevent the entrance of blood into the vessels, unless there be some other cause to overcome it, such as increased action of the heart, which attends only the first stage of hydrothorax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

Dr. Baillie’s knowledge of morbid anatomy has enabled him to make nearer approaches to truth; yet it will probably be found, when this subject shall be fully understood, that his descriptions of the symptoms of diseases of the heart and of hydrothorax are not quite accurate, and, that with respect to the former, they are very imperfect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

Of arm in hydrothorax, iv.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference