On the third day all tumefaction had subsided and there was no complaint whatever. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers] Reference
On the second and third day there was some tenderness and tumefaction of the abdomen, which increased somewhat on the fourth and fifth. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Generally the attendant is alarmed by a snoring or wheezing noise emitted by the animal in respiration, before he is aware of the existence of any tumefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Now is not this the cause of all tumefaction, as indeed Avicenna has it, and of all oppressive redundancy in parts, that the access to them is open, but the egress from them is. closed?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
In joints other than the pedal and pastern, there is sudden and extensive swelling, which at first is intra-articular, succeeded by extra-articular tumefaction, and accompanied by violent lameness. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
All this should be well known, and if you choose you may prognosticate safely that no impediment, small or great, will result from such an injury at the shoulder, only there will be a deformity in the place, for the bone cannot be properly restored to its natural situation, but there must necessarily be more or less tumefaction in the upper part. From Wordnik.com. [On The Articulations] Reference
On the following day the eye was hot and red, with some tumefaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
Thus by the law of tumefaction, death can and does succumb to its indomitable will. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
There may be so much tumefaction of the nostrils as to produce difficulty in breathing. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
This condition is similar to tumefaction in general. which is favorable to abscess formation. From Wordnik.com. [Appendicitis] Reference
About the seventh year she suffered tumefaction of the abdomen and thought she had conceived again. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The livid tumefaction spread over the leg, with blisters here and there, whence oozed a black liquid. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life] Reference
Page 194 follows, accompanied by great pain, excessive heat, considerable tumefaction, and violent fever. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
But another power is equally as effective in destruction of life which is just the reverse of tumefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
The livid tumefaction spread over the leg, with blisters here and there, whence there oozed a black liquid. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
There was much swelling and tumefaction of the whole organ, which seemed to be very rebellious to all treatment. From Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
When the inflammation and tumefaction have disappeared, rub the parts with opodeldoc, or other stimulating mixtures. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
Veins, suspended by irritation of the nerves, arteries are excited to fever heat in action with increase of tumefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
Observations without record will show any fair minded person that tumefaction does cause death in the majority of cases. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
Webster's definition of tumefaction is to swell by any fluids or solids being detained abnormally at any place in the body. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
If a tumefaction appears in one side, and not in the other, why so? and why is there no growth in one side the same as the other?. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
The tumefaction is at first the size of a hen's egg; not hot, little sensitive, and distinctly circumscribed by a marked line from the surrounding healthy tissue. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
Now is not this the cause of all tumefaction, as indeed Avicenna has it, and of all oppressive redundancy in parts, that the access to them is open, but the egress from them is closed?. From Wordnik.com. [XI. The Second Position Is Demonstrated] Reference
I made, in concert with M. Larea, a series of experiments on the tumefaction of the volcanic vitreous substances at Teneriffe, and on those which are found at Quinche, in the kingdom of Quito. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
In similar cases tumefaction assumes enormous proportions, and Schenck speaks of a man whose head exceeded that of an ox in size, the lower part of the face being entirely covered with the nose, which had to be raised to enable its unhappy owner to breathe. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
In similar cases tumefaction assumes enormous proportions, and Schenck 15.142 speaks of a man whose head exceeded that of an ox in size, the lower part of the face being entirely covered with the nose, which had to be raised to enable its unhappy owner to breathe. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
A small spot on the middle of the back of the tendon to a tumefaction reaching from the knee down to and even involving the fetlock itself. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
It is in this way that the muscles which move the hands and feet are found respectively in the arm and the calf of the leg, instead of forming, as Paley expresses it, an “unwieldy tumefaction in the hands and feet themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference
Polypus of the nose, tumefaction of lungs, lymphatics, liver, kidneys, uterus, and even the brain itself. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
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