Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of puffing or swelling.
- noun A swollen condition.
- noun A puffy or swollen part.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of swelling or rising into a tumor; also, the condition of being tumefied or swollen.
- noun That which is tumefied or swollen; a tumid part; a tumor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a tumor; a swelling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process or result of
tumefying ,swelling , or rising into atumour .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of tumefying; the organic process whereby tissue becomes swollen by the accumulation of fluid within it
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All this should be well known, and if you choose you may prognosticate safely that no impediment, small or great, will result from such an injury at the shoulder, only there will be a deformity in the place, for the bone cannot be properly restored to its natural situation, but there must necessarily be more or less tumefaction in the upper part.
On The Articulations 2007
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Now is not this the cause of all tumefaction, as indeed Avicenna has it, and of all oppressive redundancy in parts, that the access to them is open, but the egress from them is. closed?
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That it cannot flow in by the veins appears plainly enough from the fact that the blood cannot be forced towards the heart unless the ligature be removed; when this is done suddenly all the veins collapse, and disgorge themselves of their contents into the superior parts, the hand at the same time resumes its natural pale colour, the tumefaction and the stagnating blood having disappeared.
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He then desired the servant to unbuckle the straps of his helmet, but this was a task which the drawer could not perform, even though assisted with the good offices of Sir Launcelot, for the head and jaws were so much swelled with the discipline they had undergone, that the straps and buckles lay buried, as it were, in pits formed by the tumefaction of the adjacent parts.
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The livid tumefaction spread over the leg, with blisters here and there, whence there oozed a black liquid.
Madame Bovary 2003
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On the second and third day there was some tenderness and tumefaction of the abdomen, which increased somewhat on the fourth and fifth.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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That it cannot flow in by the veins appears plainly enough from the fact that the blood cannot be forced towards the heart unless the ligature be removed; when this is done suddenly all the veins collapse, and disgorge themselves of their contents into the superior parts, the hand at the same time resumes its natural pale colour, the tumefaction and the stagnating blood having disappeared.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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Now is not this the cause of all tumefaction, as indeed Avicenna has it, and of all oppressive redundancy in parts, that the access to them is open, but the egress from them is. closed?
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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Generally the attendant is alarmed by a snoring or wheezing noise emitted by the animal in respiration, before he is aware of the existence of any tumefaction.
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-- Upon the internal surface of the bursal membrane is first noticed a slight inflammatory hyperæmia, accompanied by more or less swelling and tumefaction, owing to its infiltration with inflammatory exudate.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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