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Definition of Intumescence

1. Noun. Swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion).

2. Noun. The increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water).

Definition of Intumescence

1. n. The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.

Definition of Intumescence

1. Noun. the process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen ¹

2. Noun. an instance of such swelling ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Intumescence

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Intumescence

1. Synonym: enlargement. 2. The process of enlarging or swelling; used to describe the spinal enlargements. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intumescence

intuitionistic logic intuitionistically intuitionists intuitionless intuitions intuitive intuitive feeling intuitive stage intuitively intuitiveness

intuitivenesses intuitivism intuits intumesce intumesced intumescence (current term) intumescences intumescency intumescent intumescent cataract

intumescentia intumescentia cervicalis intumescentia ganglioformis intumescentia lumbalis intumescentia tympanica intumesces intumescing intumulated intune intuned

Literary usage of Intumescence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh, Frances Dorrance (1922)
"... trimestris —with intumescence. (Orig.) Fig. 81. Magnified section of Fig. 80. (Grig.) formed above the vascular bundles. Each morning large drops of ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"According to Debray, water at 15° takes up nearly its own weight of the crystals. The crystals effloresce in warm air, melt with strong intumescence when ..."

3. Comparative Geography by Carl Ritter (1865)
"Alexander von Humboldt has employed the term intumescence, to1 indicate the manner in which plateaus have been upheaved. Plateaus appear as long, ..."

4. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children by David Francis Condie (1868)
"—intumescence and Inflammation of the Breasts. Infants of both sexes are very liable to a tumid, hard, and painful condition of the breasts, ..."

5. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The capacity of the albumin bodies for intumescence is increased by pH. ... Nicotin did not show any uniform action on the capacity for intumescence of the ..."

6. The British and Foreign Medical Review Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1840)
"Observations on Abdominal Tumours and intumescence ; illustrated by Cases of Renal Disease. By Dr. BRIGHT. (Guy's Hospital Reports, No. VIII.—April, 1839. ..."

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