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You are a surgeon operating on a broken bone. You find a large area, swollen with blood, that surrounds the break site. What is the swollen area?

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Its Osteomyelitis becaus ethe cause of it is that some times bacteria sometimes get in tho the blood from an infection in another part of the body and then travels to the bone in another part of the body and then travel to a bone.but it only depends on the
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Answer:

The area swells due to haemotoma.

Step-by-step explanation:

The process is involuntary. The blood vessel and capillaries around the injured part of the body starts leaking blood which contains white blood corpuscles. Blood vessels also swell to facilitate accumulation of blood so that invasion of foreign bodies can be countered.

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