Word: swollenness
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...handcuffs were not removed until Yang’s hands were bloody and infected, Fu said. Mo Shaoping, Yang’s lawyer, said his client’s hands were still bruised and swollen when he visited him in prison last week...
...senior veteran of Woodbridge—asked the candidates a question that I thought produced the most telling answers. Innocuously enough, it asked them to describe how they saw Woodbridge 10 years later. Most of the candidates saw a larger, more vibrant Society. But they all saw it swollen by an increasing number of international students. Not one mentioned the Americans they had mentioned in their candidacy statements...
...doctors no end, because while COPD isn't curable, it's largely preventable. Although genes play a role in the disease, about 85% of all cases in the U.S. are triggered by smoking. When cells are exposed to toxic substances for prolonged periods, they tend to become inflamed and swollen. In COPD, cells lining the lungs swell to a point at which they restrict the flow of air. "It's like a sunburn of the air passages," says Dr. Thomas Petty, a pulmonologist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and at Chicago's Rush University. Swelling...
...bacteria called group A streptococcus--or strep, for short. That's when antibiotics like penicillin or erythromycin come in handy. Early spring is a peak season for strep throat. If you have a sore throat that is accompanied by a fever but not a cough, your lymph nodes are swollen and there are yellow or white patches on your tonsils or the back of your throat, chances are, you have strep. The trouble is, most people with strep don't get all those symptoms. (A sore throat plus a runny nose and cough is usually just a cold...
...knows when I will see my family again." What broke Kosovo's hopeful peace? The events that triggered last week's violence were unremarkable. On Monday, a Serb teen was hit in a drive-by shooting. The next day, three ethnic Albanian boys in Mitrovica drowned in the swollen Ibar River. Exactly how they died is not clear, but a surviving child said his friends had been chased by Serbs with a dog. From there rumors escalated into riots and eventually gunfire. Some senior politicians urged calm. Others, however, including the Minister of Public Services, Jakup Krasniqi, said the violence...