Swelling in one leg is most often either the result of a clot blocking the blood flow, an injury in a person's leg, or inflammation from arthritic conditions. There are also some cases in which swelling in one leg might be caused by water retention, which could signal major organ failure.
The shrimp Palaemon serratus of the infraorder Caridea. The term shrimp is used to refer to some decapod crustaceans, although the exact animals covered can vary. Used broadly, it may cover any of the groups with elongated bodies and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion â most commonly Caridea and Dendrobranchiata.
A lot of confusion surrounds the scope of the term shrimp. Part of the confusion originates with the association of smallness. That creates problems with shrimp-like species that are not small. The expression jumbo shrimp can be viewed as an oxymoron, a problem that doesn't exist with the commercial designation jumbo prawns. The term shrimp originated around the 14th century with the Middle English shrimpe, akin to the Middle Low German schrempen, and meaning to contract or wrinkle; and the Old Norse skorpna, meaning to shrivel up, or skreppa, meaning a thin person.