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turgescence|tɜːˈdʒɛsəns|
[ad. med. or mod.L. turgēscentia: see next and -ence. So mod.F. turgescence (1752).]
1. The action or condition of swelling up; the fact or state of being swollen.
1631E. Jorden Nat. Bathes xiv. (1632) 106 Animals haue their set times when their spermatick spirits are in turgescence. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1763) 47 Any Turgescence or Swelling of the Blood-Vessels. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. ix. 98 That turgescence of the cerebral vessels which precedes apoplectic seizures. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 634 The pressure caused by the tension and turgescence of the tissues.
2. fig.
a. Progressive swelling or increase.
b. Inflation, pomposity, bombast.
1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 244 The turgescence of effort travelling at every hitch from head to tail. 1813― in Monthly Rev. LXX. 451 A marked tendency to affectation, to turgescence. |