Odyssey
a celebrated epic poem attributed to Homer, and descriptive of the adventures of Ulysses in his return home from the siege of Troy.
ŒCUMENICAL, universal, an epithet applied to the general councils of the Church. From the time of the Council of Chalcedon (451) the patriarchs of Constantinople took the title of ecumenical cal cal, in the same sense as the epithet Catholic is used in the Western Church.
See COUNCIL.
ŒDEMA, a swelling occasioned by the presence of water which collects in the interstices of the cellular tissues.
The subcutanous cellular tissue is the most frequent, but not the only seat of œdema. The other forms are œdema of the lungs and of the glottis. Œdema of the brain is of less frequent occurrence, and œdema of the sub-mucous and subcellular tissue seldom produces symptoms OEDENBURG sufficiently decisive to determine their nature.