1. nourishing, affording nutriment. 1. perceptible to the external senses.
Common obsessions involve thoughts of violence, contamination, and self-doubt.
1. of, pertaining to, or affecting the eye. Edema may be localized, due to venous or lymphatic obstruction or to increased vascular permeability, or it may be systemic due to heart failure or renal disease. Massive generalized edema is called anasarca . It is responsible for the development of the female secondary sex characteristics, and during the menstrual cycle it acts on the female genitalia to produce an environment suitable for the fertilization, implantation, and nutrition of the early embryo.