Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Somewhat tumid.
- adjective Becoming swollen; swelling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swelling; tumefying; forming into a tumor; intumescent.
- In botany, slightly tumid or swollen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Slightly tumid; swollen, as certain moss capsules.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
swollen ordistended withfluid , as oferectile tissue . - adjective
inflated oroverblown
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In its excited, or tumescent condition (the word tumescent means swelled, and is the technical word for describing the erect condition of the penis) it becomes enlarged and rigid, its size in this state being, on an average, six or seven inches long, and from an inch-and-a-half to two inches in diameter.
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The most common approach to liposuction today, known as tumescent liposuction, is also considered the safest.
Best Syndication - 2009
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In the newer "tumescent" method, doctors inject a medicated solution into the fatty tissue to reduce bleeding, but in rare cases, it can cause fluid buildup in the lungs and fatal blood clots.
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But "tumescent" staffs (Schlesinger's delicious description) seem normal to people with a weak sense of the past.
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The deaths reviewed in the new study all involved variations on "tumescent" liposuction, a popular technique developed by dermatologists in the late 1980s.
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The procedure may be performed under general or local ( "tumescent") anesthesia.
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The unfortunate fact is that a peace deal in the Middle East will deny SLC of masturbation fodder, given that he only gets tumescent at the thought of the region nuked into atoms.
Matthew Yglesias » Israeli Officials Think Road to Peace Runs Through Teheran 2009
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PureLipo, which Sant Antonio trademarked, is a form of "tumescent" liposuction, which means the painkiller is injected along with saline solution and a drug that slows bleeding into small incisions in the skin.
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However, Miami plastic surgeon Adam Rubinstein says virtually all cosmetic surgeons are doing tumescent liposuction; the main difference is the type of anesthesia used.
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The tumescent bellies of "Black Curve Relief" and "White Curve Relief" rise and descend, respectively, like mammoth moons.
Mind Games for the Surreal Lance Esplund 2011
chained_bear commented on the word tumescent
Certainly a candidate for reesetee's list "Worse Than They Sound," if it isn't already there in some variant (such as tumescence).
March 6, 2008