Vibrio vulnificus is a milder bacteria in the same family as cholera that enters the body through a cut, scratch or wound or by drinking or eating something, often shellfish, contaminated with it. It can be treated with antibiotics if recognized early. If evacuees or rescue workers notice a suspicious wound that's red, swollen or tender at the site of infection and is sometimes accompanied by a fever, they should try to get immediate medical care
Quotes about swollen (16 Quotes)
I woke up and it was just swollen beyond belief. The trainer told me if you want to see Saturday you better chill out. So I am just following the doctor's orders.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families scatter in pursuit of jobs and professions everywhere. In a world of wheels, old and comfortable groupings of people have disappeared.
I was told I have internal bleeding in my brain. My ankle is swollen and so is the back of my knee. The person hit my left side as I walked on the shoulder of the road.
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, striptease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.
I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
It might have something to do with his shoes, I don't know. It just didn't feel good. He's an important guy to our team. If his Achilles' tendon is swollen and not feeling right, I'm not going to put him out there. Not on that surface (the baseball infield at Dolphins Stadium). Play the percentages and get him right.
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.
When the boys were finally released, they were swollen, hurting from the beatings, afraid of more and covered with manure.
I didn't get a real conclusive answer. I don't know if an X-ray is pertinent. I know he's got full stability and everything like that. He showed up a little bit more swollen than what would probably allow him to play comfortably. That's probably the best way to put it.
I feel horrible. I couldn't sleep. My neck was swollen. My body was killing me. It was 1130 (Sunday) night and I didn't want to tell anybody. I tried to sleep and woke up in a pool of sweat.
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.