(n) (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles, Syn.Oedipus Rex, King Oedipus
(n) a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved, Syn.Oedipal complex
‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; a swelling, tumor, fr. &unr_; to swell. ] (Med.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue. [ Written also edema. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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