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Definition of Tumefies
1. tumefy [v] - See also: tumefy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumefies
Literary usage of Tumefies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Practical Assaying by John Mitchell (1868)
"The Pyroxenes, of which those containing large quantities of magnesia are with
difficulty fusible, Vesuvian, Idocrase, which tumefies on melting, ..."
2. The Use of the Blowpipe in the Qualitative and Quantitative Examination of by Karl Friedrich Plattner (1854)
"When heated to incipient redness, it tumefies, forms a light white powder, and
a very small quantity of water collects in the beak of the matrass. ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"The constant ovarian growth causes a reflex stimulation which tumefies the uterus
and probably also matures a Graafian follicle. ..."
4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1807)
"... it convulses the stomach with rancid exhalations : and if by its gravity, it
finds its way to the bowels, it tumefies them with flatulent paroxysms; ..."
5. Studies on Slavery: In Easy Lessons by John Fletcher (1852)
"The assertion, that "no man is by nature the property of another," flatters our
vanity and tumefies our pride, but is, nevertheless, untrue. ..."
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