Tumefaction is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.
You can make 814 anagrams from letters in tumefaction (acefimnottu).
1590-1600; French Latin tumefactiōn- (stem of tumefactiō a causing to swell), equivalent to tumefact(us) (past participle of tumefacere; see tumefy) + -iōn-
But another power is equally as effective in destruction of life which is just the reverse of tumefaction. If a tumefaction appears in one side, and not in the other, why so? On the third day all tumefaction had subsided and there was no complaint whatever. Mastication, deglutition, and articulation all become impeded mechanically by tumefaction of the tissues. Webster's definition of tumefaction is to swell by any fluids or solids being detained abnormally at any place in the body. Veins, suspended by irritation of the nerves, arteries are excited to fever heat in action with increase of tumefaction. This tumefaction spreads more and more, and crackles on pressure. Thus by the law of tumefaction, death can and does succumb to its indomitable will. The tumefaction and congestion are often continuous into the floor of the mouth and the parts adjacent. The intermittence of the tumefaction serves to differentiate the swelling from abscess or morbid growth.Examples for tumefaction
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