tumefy
/ˈtjuːmɪfʌɪ
/verb (tumefies, tumefying, tumefied) [no object]
Become swollen: (as adjective tumefied) the tumefied face, the swollen and blackened eyes and lips...
- Her abdomen was swollen, her six breasts had tumefied and turned pink, poking through her fur, sometimes leaking droplets of milk.
- The vacuum cup creates suction causing the surface tissue to tumefy or bulge into the cup.
- The cup is drained of air and applied to specific areas of the body causing the skin to tumefy, or swell.
Derivatives
tumefaction
- For 2 years, this tumefaction slowly enlarged.
- Doctors look for skin disease, serious disability, anthropathy, lymph problems, struma tumefaction and icterus.
- Examination revealed a tumefaction, draining a whitish secretion from the scar of the biopsy.
tumefacient
Origin
Late 16th century (earlier (Middle English) as tumefaction): from French tuméfier, from Latin tumefacere, from tumere 'to swell'.
Rhymes
- obsequiosity
- obsequious
- obsequiously
- obsequiousness
- obsequity
- observability
- observable
- observableness
- observable universe
- observably
- observance
- observancy
- observant
- Observantine
- Observantist
- observantly
- observantness
- observate
- observated
- observation
- observational
- observationalism
- observationalist
- observationality
- observationally