swelling /swell·ing/ (swel´ing)
cloudy swelling,
1. transient abnormal enlargement of a body part or area not due to cell proliferation.
2. an eminence, or elevation.
cloudy swelling an early stage of toxic degenerative changes, especially in protein constituents of organs in infectious diseases, in which the tissues appear swollen, parboiled, and opaque but revert to normal when the cause is removed.
cloud·y swelling (klou d )n. A degenerative change in cells, in which the cells swell due to injury to the membranes affecting ionic transfer, causing the cytoplasm to appear cloudy and water to accumulate between cells, with resultant swelling of tissues. Also called albuminoid degeneration, hydropic degeneration, parenchymatous degeneration. |
cloudy swelling,
cloudy swelling
see cloudy swelling.
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