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Tumefaction

Tumefaction \Tu`me*fac"tion\, n. [Cf. F. tum['e]faction.] The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a swelling.
--Arbuthnot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tumefaction

"morbid swelling," early 15c., from Medieval Latin tumefaccionem (nominative tumefaccio), noun of action from Latin tumefactus, from tumescere (see tumescence).

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tumefaction

n. The process or result of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumour.

WordNet
tumefaction

n. the process of tumefying; the organic process whereby tissue becomes swollen by the accumulation of fluid within it

Usage examples of "tumefaction".

He said his physician diagnosed the disease as a tumefaction of the stomach and liver.

The livid tumefaction spread over the leg, with blisters here and there, whence there oozed a black liquid.

On the second and third day there was some tenderness and tumefaction of the abdomen, which increased somewhat on the fourth and fifth.

Stephen Maturin s medicated grease, or the tumefaction of his battered brow and eye, which had now reached the yellow stage, with a blue outer ring, so that his left hand aspect was not unlike that of the great West African mandrill.

There was subsequently at attack of inflammatory fever, followed by tumefaction of the abdomen, convulsions, and death on the ninth day.

About the seventh year she suffered tumefaction of the abdomen and thought she had conceived again.

In similar cases tumefaction assumes enormous proportions, and Schenck speaks of a man whose head exceeded that of an ox in size, the lower part of the face being entirely covered with the nose, which had to be raised to enable its unhappy owner to breathe.