Such brain swelling, called cerebral edema, is responsible for up to 60percentt of diabetes-related deaths in children.
Injury to the outer ear can cause bleeding between the cartilage and the skin, producing a smooth, rounded, nontender purplish swelling called hematoma.
On the ventral side of its elbow, it has a small swelling called the brachial gland, which secretes a pungent, clear oily toxin that the animal uses defensively by wiping it on its toothcomb.
Physicians should also be aware that patients with anal fissures typically also have symptoms of anal swelling, which are also responsible for a swelling called a sentinel skin tag, which could be discovered by anal examination (9).
"When he was brought to us, the rate of the swelling – called edema – was very high," said Abdullahi Mohamed, a nurse with SAACID, who was the first person to treat Ismail at the centre.
Swelling, called edema, is caused primarily by the accumulation of fluid outside the blood vessels.
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This swelling is called "elephantiasis" and may lead to severe disability of the patient.
Atta colombica was used to simulate cheating by the fungal mutualist because the cultivated fungus of this species produces large, tightly clustered, nutrient-rich hyphal swellings, called gongylidia.
In the heart, the atrioventricular canal (AVC) and outflow tract (OFT) that eventually give rise to the atrioventricular valves and pulmonic and aortic valves, respectively, are characterized by localized swellings called cardiac cushions that are evident by E9.5 (Butcher and Markwald, 2007).
