Big heads, tumid abdomens, flaccid skins, bulged joints, and pinched chests are all signs of malnourishment in infants.
It is said that a gentlewoman having a swelled tumid hand, put her finger into a cat's ear, and within two hours was delivered of her pain.
In the advertisement, she holds two large light-bulbs in one hand, their tumid shapes gently echoing the swell of her breasts.
It is a small, elongated maggot, characterised by the black tumid lips which spring from the last segment.
The tumid lips are placed slightly dorsally and rather obliquely to the long axis of the body, so that they are directed backwards and upwards as the larva moves about.
They are carinated below the carina towards the mouth slightly openly constricted and then tumid on the base.
The whorls of the protoconch are tumid, obliquely immersed.
