Definitions for tumefaction

tumefaction tu·me·fac·tion

Spelling: [too-muh-fak-shuh n, tyoo-]
IPA: /ˌtu məˈfæk ʃən, ˌtyu-/

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).

Definitions for tumefaction

noun

  1. an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.

Origin of tumefaction

1590-1600; French Latin tumefactiōn- (stem of tumefactiō a causing to swell), equivalent to tumefact(us) (past participle of tumefacere; see tumefy) + -iōn-

Examples for tumefaction

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.

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