become swollen

Each head is surrounded below by a whorl of lobed bracts about as long as the calyces which become swollen after flowering.

The legs are at first drawn up and become swollen all around just above the knees, but not the knee joints themselves.

The patient suffers from pain in the legs, which sometimes become swollen and hard.

An arm or a leg may become swollen to several times its natural size, or other parts of the body may be seriously affected.

The neighbouring lymph glands soon become swollen and tender.