tumefaction
Americannoun
noun
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the act or process of swelling
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a puffy or swollen structure or part
Etymology
Origin of tumefaction
1590–1600; < French < Latin tumefactiōn- (stem of tumefactiō a causing to swell), equivalent to tumefact ( us ) (past participle of tumefacere; tumefy ) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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There is no pronouncing at once; there is great tumefaction here.
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Thence the disease progresses over the face, and possibly over the scalp also, the resulting tumefaction being occasionally, as already stated, enormous.
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In eight instances there was decided unilateral redness of the face, and five times this was attended with noticeable tumefaction.
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Slight forms of structural aphonia are of a catarrhal nature, resulting from more or less congestion and tumefaction of the mucous and submucous tissues of the larynx and adjoining parts.
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Inflammation, for example, is characterized by tumefaction, turgescence of the tissues, and redness.
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