Definition of "swelling"

noun
an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement


WikiPedia definition of "swelling"

In medical parlance, swelling is the transient [1] enlargement or protuberance in the body and may include tumors. According to cause, it may be congenital, traumatic ... >>

In medicine: Swelling (medical) is the enlargement of organs caused by accumulation of excess fluid in tissues, called edema. In engineering: Increase of volume of material, due to ... >>

Knee effusion or swelling of the knee (colloquially known as water on the knee) occurs when excess fluid accumulates in or around the knee joint. >>

Periorbital puffiness, also known as "puffy eyes" or swelling around the eyes, refers to the appearance of swelling in the tissues around the eyes, called the orbits. >>

(Redirected from Genital swelling) ... The labioscrotal folds (or labioscrotal swellings, or genital swellings) are paired ... >>

During the third week there appears, immediately behind the ventral ends of the two halves of the mandibular arch, a rounded swelling named the tuberculum impar, which was ... >>

A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations is the first book written by Cintra Wilson. >>

Loa loa filariasis (also known as loiasis, loaiasis, Calabar swellings, Fugitive swelling, Tropical swelling [1]:439 and African eyeworm) is a skin and eye disease caused by the ... >>

Neutron-induced swelling is the increase of volume and decrease of density of materials subjected to intense neutron radiation. Neutrons impacting the material's lattice rearrange ... >>

Edema (American English) or oedema (British English; both words from the Greek οἴδημα, oídēma "swelling"), formerly known as dropsy or hydropsy, is an abnormal ... >>

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