Definition of Swellings

1. Noun. (plural of swelling) ¹

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Definition of Swellings

1. swelling [n] - See also: swelling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swellings

swelled head
swellegant
sweller
swellers
swellest
swelleth
swellfish
swellfishes
swellhead
swellheaded
swellheadedness
swellheads
swelling
swelling soil
swellingly
swellings (current term)
swellish
swells
swelltoad
swelltoads
swelp
swelt
swelted
swelter
sweltered
sweltering
swelteringly
swelters
sweltery
swelting

Literary usage of Swellings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Everard Home (1810)
"I may he allowed to remark, that swellings in the testicle in consequence ... Injuries done to the testicles produce swellings, but they are different from ..."

2. International Clinics: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures by Henry W. Cattell, M. D. Witherspoon (1903)
"The most ready way is to consider those swellings which are directly ... I The best method of separating swellings which arise in the wall from those ..."

3. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Ph. Ricord, Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1859)
"Of Hie swellings of the Glands from Sympathy. Since our knowledge of the manner in which substances get into the circulation, and our having learned that ..."

4. Horses & Stables by Frederic Wellington Fitzwygram (1911)
"Nature of Dropsical swellings. 510. Seat. 511. Causes of Soft Dropsical swellings ... Naturf of Dropsical swellings. The swellings, recognised as Dropsical, ..."

5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Neoplasms and Other swellings of the Knee, and its Neighborhood Of the tumors ... Chronic swellings in the neighborhood of the joint, other than neoplasm, ..."

6. The Diagnostics of Internal Medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1901)
"Edema or swellings of the Face.—(a) The face shares in the condition of ... (b) Localized edematous and usually fugitive swellings of the face may be due to ..."

7. Diseases of the Skin: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners by J. M. H. MacLeod (1921)
"It has been suggested by Manson that the swellings are the evidence of an ... into the swellings. Until the life-history of the worm is understood no ..."

8. First Lines of the Practice of Physic by William Cullen (1808)
"The flatulent swellings under the skin, have indeed most commonly appeared in consequence of air immediately ..."

9. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Everard Home (1810)
"I may he allowed to remark, that swellings in the testicle in consequence ... Injuries done to the testicles produce swellings, but they are different from ..."

10. International Clinics: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures by Henry W. Cattell, M. D. Witherspoon (1903)
"The most ready way is to consider those swellings which are directly ... I The best method of separating swellings which arise in the wall from those ..."

11. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Ph. Ricord, Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1859)
"Of Hie swellings of the Glands from Sympathy. Since our knowledge of the manner in which substances get into the circulation, and our having learned that ..."

12. Horses & Stables by Frederic Wellington Fitzwygram (1911)
"Nature of Dropsical swellings. 510. Seat. 511. Causes of Soft Dropsical swellings ... Naturf of Dropsical swellings. The swellings, recognised as Dropsical, ..."

13. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Neoplasms and Other swellings of the Knee, and its Neighborhood Of the tumors ... Chronic swellings in the neighborhood of the joint, other than neoplasm, ..."

14. The Diagnostics of Internal Medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1901)
"Edema or swellings of the Face.—(a) The face shares in the condition of ... (b) Localized edematous and usually fugitive swellings of the face may be due to ..."

15. Diseases of the Skin: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners by J. M. H. MacLeod (1921)
"It has been suggested by Manson that the swellings are the evidence of an ... into the swellings. Until the life-history of the worm is understood no ..."

16. First Lines of the Practice of Physic by William Cullen (1808)
"The flatulent swellings under the skin, have indeed most commonly appeared in consequence of air immediately ..."

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