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(HealthDay News) -- Swelling occurs when fluid builds up in the body's tissues.
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(HealthDay News) -- Swelling occurs when fluid builds up in the body's tissues.
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Your wake-up call Swelling that's the envy of other body parts.
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(HealthDay News) -- Swelling occurs when fluid builds up in the body's tissues.
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Your wake-up call Swelling that's the envy of other body parts.
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So now, with his will or without it, his feet bore him on, and he followed up the stream which the Lady had said ran into the broad river called the Swelling Flood; "for," thought he, "when I come thereabout I shall presently find some castle or good town, and it is like that either I shall have some tidings of the folk thereof, or else they will compel me to do something, and that will irk me less than doing deeds of mine own will."
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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"Swelling" is usually caused by fluid leaking out of anatomically intact capillaries because of various physiological derangement low protein levels, high return pressures, etc. for which exercise and stuff makes sense.
Not Something You See Every Day 1 Dinosaur 2007
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"Yea," she said, "so it is, and the little stream that runs yonder beneath those cliffs, is making its way towards that big river aforesaid, which is called the Swelling
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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Swelling assets are buoying the hedge-fund industry generally, which is rebounding from market losses and customer flight during the financial crisis.
Och-Ziff Logs Net Loss, but Beats Street by Another Metric Amy Or 2011
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Swelling or water retention in ankles or feet in up to 12 percent of people
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Post-Chemotherapy and Neulesta Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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