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
- Monte di Pietà
- Montefiascone
- Montego Bay
- monteith
- montejuice
- monte-jus
- Montelian
- Montem
- Montenegran
- Montenegrian
- Montenegrin
- Montenegro
- Montepulciano
- montera
- Monterey
- Monterey cheese
- Monterey cypress
- Monterey Jack
- Monterey mackerel
- Monterey pine
- Monterey Spanish mackerel
- montero
- Monterrey
- Montespan, Marquise de
- Montesquieu, Charles