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Definition of Intumescency

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).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intumescency

intuitionists intuitionless intuitions intuitive intuitive feeling intuitive stage intuitively intuitiveness intuitivenesses intuitivism

intuits intumesce intumesced intumescence intumescences intumescency (current term) intumescent intumescent cataract intumescentia intumescentia cervicalis

intumescentia ganglioformis intumescentia lumbalis intumescentia tympanica intumesces intumescing intumulated intune intuned intunes intuning

Literary usage of Intumescency

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

1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Without deduction of reason ; by immediate perception. INTUMESCENCE,(in-tn.ines'-sense) 1 intumescency,(m-tu-mes'.sgn-se)5"-*- Swell ; tumour. ..."

2. Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence by Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin (1835)
"... simple operation upon the surface or superior parts, but excitation of the nitro-sulphureous spirits, and parts disposed to intumescency at the bottom; ..."

3. A Treatise on the Diseases of Females by William Dewees (1854)
"For now the breasts lose their intumescency; the morning sickness vanishes; the swelling of the abdomen subsides; the imagined stirrings of the foetus cease ..."

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