Swellings

Word SWELLINGS
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Definitions and meanings of "Swellings"

What do we mean by swellings?

The state of being swollen.

Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.

A rising, as of passion or anger.

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The word "swellings" in example sentences

The swellings from the bites have become confluent, and are scarlet with inflammation. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

This groove is, of course, the dorsal furrow, and the swellings are the dorsal or medullary swellings; they form the first structure of the central nervous system, the medullary tube. ❋ Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1876)

In this place also we found plenty of an herb called scurvy-grass, which we eat fried in seal-oil along with eggs, which so purified the blood, that it entirely removed all kind of swellings, of which many had died, and restored us all to as perfect health as when we first left England. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

"swellings," the stream was narrow, and neither deep nor troubled. ❋ John Lyth (N/A)

And faces had strange, puffy swellings, rather like Francis Bacon paintings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whether such swellings of the heart are reliably constellated in those structures is another matter. ❋ ArtScene (2011)

We care for children with anomalies of the external genitalia such as hydroceles (swellings in the scrotum), undescended testes and other scrotal problems in boys; we treat disorders of sexual differentiation and are specialists in pediatric gynecology. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But evil are the swellings, both in the body and in diction, which are inflated and unreal, and threaten us with the reverse of our aim; for nothing, say they, is drier than a man who has the dropsy. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

Bubotuber is a thick, black, slug-like plant, capable of squirming and covered with pus-filled swellings, which cause boils when they touch the skin. ❋ Richard Mabey (2011)

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