swollen

IPA: swˈoʊɫʌn

adjective

protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).

Examples of "swollen" in Sentences

The place I was stung became swollen.
The liver becomes swollen and painful.
The hands of the dead were very swollen.
The liver is also usually friable and swollen.
At the base of the leaf are two swollen glands.
The epiglottis and arytenoids are cherry red and swollen.
A physical examination confirms the presence of the swollen glands.
The abdomen, the base of which is swollen, is crimson with a violet tinge.
There are pictures of me as a child with my eye all swollen from a bug bite.
At the end of the wet season, the tail will become somewhat swollen with fat.
"Look at how my mouth sticks out," he said of what he described as his swollen face.
He was home last night, still a little druggy and his mouth is very swollen from the surgery and packing.
The guts of the men sag hugely and the monstrous buttocks of the women seesaw painfully as they tread the boardwalk in swollen sneakers.
His face was iced up and swollen from the protracted effort of twenty-four hours, while his hands were so swollen that he could not close the fingers.
Instead of hair, her pale head was covered in swollen, reddish-purple growths the size of marbles, which sprouted from her hairline all the way down to the back of her neck.
On examining the right hypochondrium, which he described as swollen, there was evident indication of an enlarged liver, and he complained much of shooting pain in that region during a paroxysm of cough.
We had 2.5 weeks of newborn pics from before and … if the worst happened … we didn't want to remember him swollen from the steroids, with IVs in his skull, a central line in his leg, him in a medically induced coma with a machine breathing for him … Egads.

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