Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Tumescence; tumefaction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A swelling or rising.
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- noun A
swelling orrising .
Etymologies
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Latin ex + tumescens, present participle of tumescere, incho. from tumere to swell: compare French extumescence.
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