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Hematoma :: Hematoma (n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.

Inturgescence :: Inturgescence (n.) A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.

Turgescent :: Turgescent (a.) Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

Emphysema :: Emphysema (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.

Smut :: Smut (v. t.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis..

Sea :: Sea (n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea..

Plim :: Plim (v. i.) To swell, as grain or wood with water..

Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..

Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennae of certain insects..

Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To swell beyond; to overflow.

Swelling :: Swellfish (n.) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon..

Tumefaction :: Tumefaction (n.) The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a swelling..

Windgall :: Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

Tragacanth :: Tragacanth (n.) A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth..

Turgesce :: Turgesce (v. i.) To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer..

Astrut :: Astrut (a. & adv.) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner..

Swoln :: Swollen (a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams..

Tortulous :: Tortulous (a.) Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

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