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tumefactive

tumefactive adjective: that results in tumefaction.

Adjective

tumefactive (comparative more tumefactive, superlative most tumefactive)

  1. That results in tumefaction
    • McDermott et al. were the first to recognise NCMH as a distinct clinic-pathological entity in 1998 when they described a case series of seven patients with a tumefactive process of the nasal passages and contiguous paranasal sinuses with a detectable mass in the nose.2015 July 3, Katrina Anna Mason et al., “Nasal Chondromesenchymal Hamartoma (NCMH): a systematic review of the literature with a new case report”, in Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery...

Forms of tumefactive

comparativemore tumefactive
superlativemost tumefactive

Questions about tumefactive

What does tumefactive mean?
Tumefactive means that results in tumefaction.
What part of speech is tumefactive?
Tumefactive is an adjective.

Words near tumefactive in the dictionary

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

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