The turgescence may involve the whole extent of the mucosa of the inferior turbinated bodies, including their posterior ends.
Turgescence of the scalp veins draining into this sinus, and œdema over the mastoid, are occasionally observed; but as these signs may accompany various other conditions, they are of little diagnostic value.
There are no symptoms that are pathognomonic, but œdema of the scalp with turgescence of its veins, epistaxis, and convulsions followed by paralysis, are those most likely to be met with.
The acute symptoms are swelling and discoloration of the integuments, turgescence of the Schneiderian membrane, which covers the septum narium and the turbinated bones, and consequent obstruction to the passage of air.
At first the lids are more or less inverted, on account of œdematous swelling of the cellular tissue: in the latter stages they are everted by thickening and turgescence of the conjunctiva.
It may arise from relaxation and turgescenceof the parietes, or from effusion of lymph either under the lining membrane, or on its surface.
By this method of anastomosis some relief is afforded when there is an obstruction in the portal circulation, which is such a common cause of turgescence of these veins, often resulting in permanent dilatation or hemorrhoids.
Good classes it among his numerous varieties of mesenteric turgescence, but characterizes this special form as a scrofulous turgescence always associated with the strumous diathesis.
A degree of vascular turgescence visible to the naked eye is nearly always present in the mucous and submucous tissues which have been the seat of catarrh.
It is in youth that this turgescence and clearness are most evident.
The growth or rapid turgescence takes place, according to the same writer, at the pace of one millimetre in three minutes.
It is partly due to the actual loss of weight during the high pyrexia, but even more to the abrupt transition from a state of extreme febrileturgescence to one of equally extreme relaxation and maceration of the surface.
This operation is not indeed followed by any success, when the disease depends upon sanguineous turgescence and inflammation.
Increased turgescence is commonly followed by increased growth, so that a plant which has bent itself towards the light during the day would be fixed in this position were it not for apogeotropism acting during the night.
In the one set, an irritant causes an increase or diminution in the turgescence of the cells, which are already in a state of change; whilst in the other set, the irritant first starts a similar change in their state of turgescence.
The plumpness of a child and the turgescence of young cells are but the expression of high osmotic tension, while relaxation and flaccidity of the tissues in old age betrays the fall of osmotic pressure in the intracellular tissues.
Inflammation, for example, is characterized by tumefaction, turgescence of the tissues, and redness.
Hence the osmotic pressure in an inflamed region is increased, turgescence is produced, and {59} the current of water carries with it the blood globules which produce the redness.
