tumefaction

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This tumefaction spreads more and more, and crackles on pressure.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

A thick diphtheritic pellicle occurred upon the under surface of each eyelid on the left side, with great tumefaction of both lids, gangrene of the cornea, and destruction of the eye.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Inflammation, for example, is characterized by tumefaction, turgescence of the tissues, and redness.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

Thence the disease progresses over the face, and possibly over the scalp also, the resulting tumefaction being occasionally, as already stated, enormous.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The failure of free action of blood produces general debility, congestion, low types of fever, dropsy, constipation, tumefaction and on to the whole list of visceral of diseases.

From Philosophy of Osteopathy by Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)