Definition of "swellings" []

• Plural form of swelling. (noun)

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• "The swellings from the bites have become confluent, and are scarlet with inflammation."
• "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."
• "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."