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tumefaction

tumefaction noun: the process or result of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumour.

Noun

tumefaction (countable and uncountable, plural tumefactions)

  1. The process or result of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumour.
    • Tumefaction, (lat[in]) a cauſing to ſwell.[1658, Edward Phillips, compiler, “Tumefaction”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], →OCLC, column 1
    • The common Signs and Effects of weak Fibres are Paleness, Smoothness, Coldness of the Skin, Colour of the Blood not Florid (for what maketh that is a strong action of the Solids) a weak Pulse, Tumefactions in the whole Body or Parts, Stagnation of Humours […]1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 6, Prop. 2, p. 152

tumefaction meaning in Tamil and Kannada

tumefaction in Tamil

வீங்குதல், நீர்க்கட்டு, வீக்கம்

tumefaction in Kannada

ಶೋಫ

Examples of tumefaction in a sentence

  • The livid tumefaction spread over the leg, with blisters here and there, whence there oozed a black liquid.1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 11, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary, New York: Knopf, published 1919, page 226:
  • Uttering these words, she squeezed my hand, which was now entwined with hers a scant millimeter from the straining tumefaction in my lap […].1979, William Styron, chapter 7, in Sophie’s Choice, New York: Bantam, published 1983, page 209:

Forms of tumefaction

pluraltumefactions

Origin of tumefaction

From Latin tumefaciō. Compare French tuméfaction.

Questions about tumefaction

What does tumefaction mean?
Tumefaction means the process or result of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumour.
What is tumefaction in Tamil?
Tumefaction in Tamil is வீங்குதல், நீர்க்கட்டு, வீக்கம். See Tumefaction meaning in Tamil.
How do you use tumefaction in a sentence?
The livid tumefaction spread over the leg, with blisters here and there, whence there oozed a black liquid.
What part of speech is tumefaction?
Tumefaction is a noun.
What is the plural of tumefaction?
The plural of tumefaction is tumefactions.

Words near tumefaction in the dictionary

  1. Tumby
  2. Tumby Bay
  3. Tumby Woodside
  4. tumchaite
  5. tumefacient
  6. tumefaction
  7. tumefactions
  8. tumefactive
  9. tumefied
  10. tumefies
  11. tumefy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tumefaction (page history and authors); tumefaction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tumefaction (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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