swelling
nounUK /ˈswɛl.ɪŋ/
1
The state of being swollen.
- Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:
2
Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
3
Figuratively A rising, as of passion or anger.
- Synonyms
- aposteme, incrassation, intumescence, inturgescence, swelling, swollenness
- Derived terms
- deswelling, electroswelling, labioscrotal swelling, swelling soil, swelling tape, white swelling
- Related terms
- swollen
- Hyponyms
27 terms
ancome, baluku, blain, bloat, blubber-lip, bunion, cauliflower ear, clyer, ecchymoma, eyebag, goose egg, hematocele, housemaid's knee, meteorism, nodosity, papilledema, pump knot, pneumatocele, pock, thick lip, thoroughpin, dropsy, edema, hydrops, hydropsy, oedema, water sickness