What's the difference between swollen and urticaria?

Swollen


Definition:

  • () of Swell
  • () p. p. of Swell.
  • (a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
  • (2) Mild fibrosis, swollen mitochondria, and hyper-contracted and overdistended sarcomeres were typical ultrastructural alterations.
  • (3) The fungicidal activity of six rabbit neutrophil cationic peptides (NP) against resting (dormant) spores, preincubated (swollen) spores, and hyphae of Aspergillus fumigatus and Rhizopus oryzae was examined.
  • (4) Precipitates of calcium antimonate were formed almost exclusively in swollen clear pinealocytes, in and along their cell membranes, over their nuclei, in mitochondria, the Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic and integrade reticulums, acervuli, in vesicles surrounding synaptic bars, cytoplasmic matrix, and flocculent extracellular material.
  • (5) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
  • (6) Effects of alpha- or beta-D-glucose on the respiration of germinated spores (only germinated spores not including swollen spores and elongated spores) of Bacillus subtilis and B. megaterium were studied.
  • (7) Central nervous system (CNS) cultured neurons while exposed to different concentrations and pH of L-lactic acid exhibited in general chromatin clumping, vacuolization in the cytoplasm, appearance of lipid bodies, accumulation of polyribosomes, cytoplasmic lucency and swollen and aggregation of mitochondria.
  • (8) The enzyme changes in response to trauma varied widely; some enzymes controlling tissue respiration showed early and rapid changes, increasing in hyperactive, swollen glial cells and vascular endothelium and decreasing in nerve cells and neuropile.
  • (9) It's possible that it upsets her to think about the past, or perhaps, these days, she saves her animation for the times when she is holding a microphone and standing in front of a swollen, angry crowd.
  • (10) In acute inflammation, circumscribed ulcers were often seen; along their margins the epithelial cells were swollen and isolated from the surrounding cells.
  • (11) A diffusely reddish and swollen vaginal mucosa from a 5 year old caucasian female, which experienced recurrent haemorrhages since the first year of life, proves to be a venous angiosis or varicosis, representing a congenital vascular malformation.
  • (12) Ultrastructurally, swollen and degenerating nerve processes have been found after lithium treatment suggesting a particular sensitivity of these structures to lithium ion.
  • (13) Investigations with scanning and transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that the HOS test caused the membrane of the sperm tail to swell and the tail fibers to coil several times within the swollen membrane.
  • (14) The type I epithelial cells of the lung tissue are swollen and show poor cellular structures.
  • (15) Within 24 h of injection, axons in this nerve became swollen and fused at points along their length.
  • (16) After 24 h, the extensor digitorum longus and tibialis anterior muscles appeared grossly swollen (edematous) and discolored.
  • (17) A 70-year-old man died when his car crashed into a swollen river near Earith, Cambridgeshire.
  • (18) Maximally swollen mitochondria from intermediate-age ARO rats, contracted more rapidly with antimycin addition than those from PF or AF controls.
  • (19) Clinical index consisted of the Landsbury index, number of swollen joints and duration of morning stiffness.
  • (20) The chloride cells were swollen and alterations had occurred in their mitochondria and nuclei.

Urticaria


Definition:

  • (n.) The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
  • (2) We report an episode of hypotension, tachycardia, bronchospasm and urticaria following application of a non-ionic contrast medium (Iopamidol) during isoflurane anaesthesia.
  • (3) This suggests that common food additives are seldom if ever of significance as precipitating factors in chronic urticaria or atopic dermatitis.
  • (4) An almost equal sex distribution was found in chronic urticaria (51.9% female).
  • (5) The antimalarial drugs can clear up skin lesions in patients with polymorphous light eruption and solar urticaria who cannot obtain relief with topical sunscreens and in some patients with porphyria cutanea tarda.
  • (6) Both before and after application of the stimulus, the walls of the superficial dermal vessels of the patients with dermographism were thinner and contained less extracellular matrix material than vessel walls of the patients with cold-induced urticaria.
  • (7) Localized heat urticaria is a rare disorder, in which the nature of the mediator is not fully established.
  • (8) (2) One case (1.3%) of minor degree of urticaria was found as a side effect, and one case each of eosinophilia and elevation of GOT, GPT and Al-P was observed as abnormal laboratory value.
  • (9) The drug was withdrawn in 6 patients--lack of response in one, thrombocytopenia in one, urticaria in one, rash in one, and granulocytopenia in 2.
  • (10) A young woman with diabetes mellitus developed chronic urticaria after changing from isophane been insulin suspension to isophane beef-pork insulin suspension.
  • (11) A frequent cause of contact urticaria is skin exposure to the common stinging nettle (Urtica dioica).
  • (12) Different reaction types seem to have been responsible for the occurrence of the urticaria.
  • (13) The second-generation H1-receptor antagonists are replacing the first generation H1-receptor antagonists in the symptomatic treatment of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, and in relieving pruritus in patients with urticaria.
  • (14) These results indicate that a 10 day trial of both H1 and H2 antihistamines may be useful in patients with chronic urticaria resistant to all other standard treatment modalities.
  • (15) A case is here reported of a 35 year old woman with a history of urticaria following anti-tetanus serum and penicillin injections, who frequently ate exotic fruit, and who was intolerant to alcohol.
  • (16) In children, manifestations of IgE-mediated food allergy (often in association with other immune mechanisms) include self-limiting and immediate reactions (e.g., urticaria, wheeze) and chronic diseases (food-sensitive enteropathies, eczema).
  • (17) Histamine release from peripheral blood basophils challenged with C5a, f-met-peptides and calcium ionophore was studied in patients with cold urticaria before and after exposure to low environmental temperatures.
  • (18) Many solar urticaria patients may benefit from the use of antihistamines.
  • (19) The predominant signs were facial edema, flushing, urticaria, bronchospasm, tachycardia, and hypotension.
  • (20) The association of chronic urticaria with C3NeF without clinical and biological signs of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and partial lipodystrophy has not to our knowledge been reported before.

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