tumefaction
See also: tuméfaction
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin tumefaciō. Compare French tuméfaction.
Noun
[edit]tumefaction (countable and uncountable, plural tumefactions)
- The process or result of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumour.
- [1658, Edward Phillips, compiler, “Tumefaction”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], →OCLC, column 1:
- Tumefaction, (lat[in]) a cauſing to ſwell.]
- 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 6, Prop. 2, p. 152,[1]
- The common Signs and Effects of weak Fibres are Paleness, Smoothness, Coldness of the Skin, Colour of the Blood not Florid (for what maketh that is a strong action of the Solids) a weak Pulse, Tumefactions in the whole Body or Parts, Stagnation of Humours […]
- 1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 11, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary[2], New York: Knopf, published 1919, page 226:
- The livid tumefaction spread over the leg, with blisters here and there, whence there oozed a black liquid. Matters were taking a serious turn.
- 1979, William Styron, chapter 7, in Sophie’s Choice[3], New York: Bantam, published 1983, page 209:
- Uttering these words, she squeezed my hand, which was now entwined with hers a scant millimeter from the straining tumefaction in my lap […] .