Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Somewhat tumid.
- adj. Becoming swollen; swelling.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Swelling; tumefying; forming into a tumor; intumescent.
- In botany, slightly tumid or swollen.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Slightly tumid; swollen, as certain moss capsules.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
Etymologies
- From Latin tumēscēns ("swelling, bloating") (Wiktionary)
- Latin tumēscēns, tumēscent-, present participle of tumēscere, to begin to swell, inchoative of tumēre, to swell; see teuə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“The most common approach to liposuction today, known as tumescent liposuction, is also considered the safest.”
“The deaths reviewed in the new study all involved variations on "tumescent" liposuction, a popular technique developed by dermatologists in the late 1980s.”
“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.”
“But "tumescent" staffs (Schlesinger's delicious description) seem normal to people with a weak sense of the past.”
“The procedure may be performed under general or local ( "tumescent") anesthesia.”
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“The tumescent bellies of "Black Curve Relief" and "White Curve Relief" rise and descend, respectively, like mammoth moons.”
“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.”
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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.”
USA Today: Lack of training can be deadly in cosmetic surgery
“However, Miami plastic surgeon Adam Rubinstein says virtually all cosmetic surgeons are doing tumescent liposuction; the main difference is the type of anesthesia used.”
USA Today: Lack of training can be deadly in cosmetic surgery
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tumescent’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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XXX
Adult themed words
cum, cunnilingus, vulva, pudenda, tribadism, flagellation, lecherous, succubus, lascivious, tumescent, nyotaimori, sapphic and 4 more...
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Rexicon
brazen, insipid, cuss, penchant, salacious, titillate, lurid, schlemiel, interlope, masquerade, supercilious, action-taking and 51 more...
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February 2012
filiopietistic, bifurcate, enclave, wedlock, decadent, unduly, defunct, lapel, tumescent, capitulation, leaden, scintilla and 83 more...
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the lascivious
orgiastic, nymph, breathless, writhe, calypso, Medusa, virago, sapphic, catamite, bisou, buss, succubus and 48 more...
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Fetishes, Erotica & Descriptive Smut
Sexually charged words, or those that could be. Sexual innuendos are mighty welcome.
lubricious, turgid, tumescent, tumid, feverish, mons, mons veneris, prurient, ophidian, houri, cyprian, licentious and 42 more...
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Garbiage
word trash
parapluie, brobdingnagian, plié, segue, laconic, pastoral, phthisis, belly, synecdoche, apotheosis, sepulchral, mollification and 40 more...
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adj. + adv.
vainglorious, lanuginous, altiloquent, ambisextrous, desiderative, flothery, liquescent, logoed, autotelic, tropology, erotogenic, crocky and 108 more...
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ICE
quincunx, adoxography, panjundrum, breloque, surd, scripturient, rousant, favrile, embouchure, aquarelle, griffonage, sussultatory and 234 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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Chained Bear's Favorite Words
peruvian, sparky, poop, etymological, fuck, whatnot, pulchritude, nosh, tetched, quotidian, squalid, trajectory and 388 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tumescent.
chained_bear Certainly a candidate for reesetee's list "Worse Than They Sound," if it isn't already there in some variant (such as tumescence). Mar 6, 2008