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Definition of Ballooned

1. a. Swelled out like a balloon.

Definition of Ballooned

1. Verb. (past of balloon) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ballooned

1. balloon [v] - See also: balloon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ballooned

Literary usage of Ballooned

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. W. B. Yeats: Manuscripts of W.B. Yeats by David R. Clark, William Butler Yeats (1989)
"... and in lines 13 and 14 the clause "You shall look no more upon such horrors," is ballooned and clewed in after "dark." in line 17 (1048). ..."

2. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"These ballooned cells are large and contain from two to sixteen or more nuclei. The contents of the vesicles when fully developed consist of a finely ..."

3. A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson (1920)
"The heart is really a bulb, or pouch, which has ballooned out from the central feed pipe of the blood supply system, somewhat in the same way that the ..."

4. Diseases of the skin and the eruptive fevers by Jay Frank Schamberg (1921)
"Even the septa which run through the vesicle are frequently surrounded by ballooned giant-cells. At the base of the chicken-pox lesion the balloons form a ..."

5. Diseases of the Skin: Their Pathology and Treatment by Milton Bixler Hartzell (1917)
"... which are from two to a dozen or twenty large round nuclei, the "ballooned" epithelium of Unna; these changes are followed by fibrinoid metamorphosis. ..."

6. Acute Contagious Diseases by William Miller Welch, Jay Frank Schamberg (1905)
"Even the septa which run through the vesicle are frequently surrounded by ballooned giant cells. At the base of the chickenpox lesion the balloons form a ..."

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