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Swelling vs Sweating - What's the difference?

swelling | sweating |

As nouns the difference between swelling and sweating

is that swelling is the state of being swollen while sweating is the production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.

As verbs the difference between swelling and sweating

is that swelling is while sweating is .

As an adjective sweating is

of or relating to one who is.

swelling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The state of being swollen.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= a1420 , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge ; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. }}
  • Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.

    • See also

    * edema

    Verb

    (head)

    • sweating

    English

    (wikipedia sweating)

    Noun

  • the production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • Her jet-black hair would be heavily braided, and her face chalky-white from its coating of powder (she suffered from constant sweatings and seborrhoea).

    Synonyms

    * perspiration

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or relating to one who is