Tumescence Definition
to͝o-mĕsəns, tyo͝o-
noun
A swelling; distention.
Webster's New World
A swollen condition.
American Heritage Medicine
A swollen or distended part.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Tumescence
Noun
Singular:
tumescencePlural:
tumescencesOrigin of Tumescence
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1725, initially as tumefaction (1590s), from French tumescence, from Latin tumescens (“swelling"), present participle of tumÄ“scō (“I begin to swell"), from tumeō (“I swell") + -Ä“scō (“I become") (English -esce, in this form -escence), stem from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling"), stative stem of *tum- (“to swell").
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