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tumefactions

tumefactions is the plural of tumefaction.

Meaning of tumefaction

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

Questions about tumefactions

What is tumefactions the plural of?
Tumefactions is the plural of tumefaction.

Words near tumefactions in the dictionary

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

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