tumefaction

plural tumefactions

1. countableuncountableThe process or result of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumour.

   Tumefaction, (lat[in]) a cauſing to ſwell.

   [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

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   1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 6, Prop. 2, p. 152, 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 […]

   The symptoms are coryza or catarrh suddenly setting in, itching of face and skin, erysipelatous swelling of the face, or tumefaction of the lids—dyspnœa more or less urgent, epigastric oppression, vomiting, headache.

   1880, The American Medical Association, The Transactions of the American Medical Association, Volume 31, page 528

   The livid tumefaction spread over the leg, with blisters here and there, whence there oozed a black liquid. Matters were taking a serious turn.

   1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 11, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary, New York: Knopf, published 1919, page 226

   Uttering these words, she squeezed my hand, which was now entwined with hers a scant millimeter from the straining tumefaction in my lap […].

   1979, William Styron, chapter 7, in Sophie’s Choice, New York: Bantam, published 1983, page 209