swelling high

  • 1High-swelling — High swell ing, a. Inflated; boastful. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 2high flown — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, absurd, affected, aggrandized, ambitious, amplified, arrogant, ballyhooed, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big sounding, bizarre, bombastic, classy, cockamamie, condescending, convoluted, crazy …

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  • 3high-wrought — a. 1. Impetuous, vehement, intense, swelling high, rising high. 2. Enthusiastic, impassioned. 3. Highly finished, finely elaborated, delicately and intricately wrought …

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  • 4Swelling of the knee — (colloquially known as water on the knee) occurs when excess fluid accumulates in or around the knee joint. There are many common causes for the swelling, including arthritis, injury to the ligaments or meniscus, or when fluid collects in the… …

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  • 5high — /huy/, adj., higher, highest, adv., higher, highest, n. adj. 1. having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall. 2. having a specified extent upward: The apple tree is now 20 feet high. 3. situated… …

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  • 6high — [[t]haɪ[/t]] adj. and adv. er, est, n. 1) having a great or considerable height; lofty; tall: a high wall[/ex] 2) having a specified height: The tree is now 20 feet high[/ex] 3) situated above the ground or some base; elevated: a high ledge[/ex]… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 7High ankle sprain — A high ankle sprain, also known as a syndesmotic ankle sprain, is a sprain of the syndesmotic ligaments that connect the tibia and fibula on the lower leg. Syndesmotic ankle sprains are known as high because their location on the lower leg is… …

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  • 8High altitude cerebral edema — DiseaseDisorder infobox Name = High altitude cerebral edema ICD10 = ICD9 = ICD9|993.2 High altitude cerebral edema (or HACE) is a severe (frequently fatal) form of altitude sickness. HACE is the result of swelling of brain tissue from fluid… …

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  • 9high — [OE] High is an ancient word. It goes right back to Indo European *koukos, which is related to a number of terms denoting roughly ‘rounded protuberance’: Sanskrit kucas ‘breast’, for instance, Russian húcha ‘heap’, and Lithuanian kaukas ‘swelling …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 10high — [OE] High is an ancient word. It goes right back to Indo European *koukos, which is related to a number of terms denoting roughly ‘rounded protuberance’: Sanskrit kucas ‘breast’, for instance, Russian húcha ‘heap’, and Lithuanian kaukas ‘swelling …

    Word origins