INTUMESCENCE
\ɪntjuːmˈɛsəns], \ɪntjuːmˈɛsəns], \ɪ_n_t_j_uː_m_ˈɛ_s_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of INTUMESCENCE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
By Oddity Software
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The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
By Noah Webster.
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Augmentation of size in a part or in the whole of the body. Sauvages uses the word Intumescen'tiae for an order of diseases, in which he comprehends polysarcia, pneumatosis, anasarca, oedema, physconia, and pregnancy.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
