The Archers is a long-running British radio soap opera broadcast on the BBC 's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. Originally billed as an everyday story of country folk, it is now described as contemporary drama in a rural setting.he Archers is set in the fictional village of Ambridge in the fictional county of Borsetshire, in the English Midlands. Borsetshire is situated between, in reality, the contiguous counties of Worcestershire and Warwickshire, south of Birmingham in the West Midlands.
Edema definition and facts. 1  Edema is a swelling, usually of the legs, feet, and/or hands due to the accumulation of excessive fluid in the tissues.  The edema that occurs in diseases of the heart, liver, and kidneys is mainly caused by salt retention, which holds the excess fluid in the body.
loss of extracellular fluid from the vascular to other body compartments. A popular verb for haemorrhage or other accumulation of fluids into the so-called 3rd space or physiologic compartment, the interstitial space between the skin and fascia that isnât normally perfused with fluids