This condition may be looked for in edematous or dropsical cases.
Bodies dying in high fever and edematous subjects are much more quickly decomposed than those dying with the ordinary wasting away disease.
The supraglottic type consists in an edematous thickening around the base of the epiglottis, sometimes involving also the glossoepiglottic folds and the ventricular bands.
If the subglottic region is already edematous and causes resistance, slight rotation to the laryngoscope, and bronchoscope will cause the bronchoscope to enter more easily.
The subglottic infiltrations from extensions of laryngeal disease are usually of edematous appearance, though they are much more firm than in ordinary inflammatory edema.
Galvanopuncture for laryngeal tuberculosis has yielded excellent results in reducing the large pyriform edematous swellings of the aryepiglottic folds when ulceration has not yet developed.
Edematous polypi and other more or less tumor-like inflammatory sequelae are occasionally encountered.
A ring of edematous mucosa quickly forms and covers the presenting part of the object, leaving visible only a small surface in the center of an acute edematous stenosis.
At C the edematous mucosa is being repressed by the lip of the tube mouth, permitting insinuation of the hook, H, past one side of the foreign body, which is then withdrawn to a convenient place for application of the forceps.
Moreover, the foreign body will be difficult to find and to remove from the edematous and bleeding folds, and the risk of following a false passage into the mediastinum or overriding the foreign body is great.
The lymph-nodes may be congested, or edematousand hemorrhagic.
A very striking picture is sometimes presented by the pale, edematous intestinal wall dotted or streaked with vivid red.
Frequently a leg, which is the seat of varicose veins, or which is edematous from other causes, is attacked by acute eczema.
In edematous swelling in general, the flannel appears very suitable, as it is soft to the skin and accommodates itself to the greater or less distension of the limb, arising from the increase or diminution of the fluid.
The skin becomes white and thick because of the obliteration of the superficial vessels and because of its edematous infiltration.
At first the eye grounds are normal; there is then an edematous neuritis, and finally a white atrophy.
There later developed a slight edematous neuritis of the nerve, corresponding to the evolution of a chronic retrobulbar neuritis of toxic origin.
Case 66 is one with recovery from Jacksonian seizures after decompression of the upper Rolandic region, which was edematous following an (apparently very slight) scalp wound and shell-shock.
The skin of the scrotum is tense, and it may be edematous (pitting on pressure), as are the deeper envelopes and spermatic cord.
The edematous swelling, when recognized by its external appearance and the existing inflammation, should be treated without delay.
Such abscesses have the appearance of a hard tumor, surrounded by a softer edematous swelling, involving the tissues to the extent of a foot or more in all directions from the tumor.
It is not to be confounded with the puffy, edematous swelling, which is not separated from the skin and subcutaneous connective tissues found in strangles, in laryngitis, and in other simple inflammatory troubles.
Usually the first symptom of trouble is the edematousswelling on the front of the "knee.
Following the subsidence of this diffused and edematous swelling is sometimes the formation of a tumor, either at the knee or the fetlock.
This disease is a septic bacterial intoxication, acute and infectious in character, and is manifested by edematous swellings of the subcutaneous connective tissue, and hemorrhages on the mucous membrane and in the internal organs.
In edematous pneumonia, on the contrary, all the feed that can possibly be digested and assimilated must be given.
These are sharply defined andedematous swellings of the skin about the size of a half dollar or may be even larger.
The edematous condition was by this means much reduced in a short time.
