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- noun Plural form of
swelling .
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Examples
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The swellings from the bites have become confluent, and are scarlet with inflammation.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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This groove is, of course, the dorsal furrow, and the swellings are the dorsal or medullary swellings; they form the first structure of the central nervous system, the medullary tube.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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In this place also we found plenty of an herb called scurvy-grass, which we eat fried in seal-oil along with eggs, which so purified the blood, that it entirely removed all kind of swellings, of which many had died, and restored us all to as perfect health as when we first left England.
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"swellings," the stream was narrow, and neither deep nor troubled.
Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York John Lyth
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And faces had strange, puffy swellings, rather like Francis Bacon paintings.
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And faces had strange, puffy swellings, rather like Francis Bacon paintings.
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And faces had strange, puffy swellings, rather like Francis Bacon paintings.
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And faces had strange, puffy swellings, rather like Francis Bacon paintings.
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And faces had strange, puffy swellings, rather like Francis Bacon paintings.
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And faces had strange, puffy swellings, rather like Francis Bacon paintings.
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