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Definition of Tumesce
1. Verb. Expand abnormally. "Did his feet tumesce?"; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
Specialized synonyms: Distend, Belly, Belly Out, Blow Up, Puff, Puff Out, Puff Up, Bloat, Blister, Vesicate
Generic synonyms: Expand
Derivative terms: Intumescence, Intumescency, Swelling, Tumefaction, Tumescent
Definition of Tumesce
1. to become swollen [v -MESCED, -MESCING, -MESCES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumesce
Literary usage of Tumesce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A German-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1917)
"tarnish, become du or dim; (of dyed goods) recolor; swell, in tumesce; increase;
amount; run; crowd. ..."
2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1920)
"... vapour condensing to graphite.4 443 As already mentioned, many specimens of
graphite in- tumesce when moistened with nitric acid and strongly heated. ..."
3. Treatise on Mineralogy: Second Part, Consisting of Descriptions of the by Charles Upham Shepard (1835)
"Before the blow-pipe, it loses its transparency, and melts into a glassy globule:
the radiated varieties exfoliate, and the compact ones in- tumesce. ..."
4. Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom by Friedrich Mohs (1825)
"Before the blowpipe the varieties of the present species in- tumesce and partly
exfoliate, but are difficultly fusible, and only on the thinnest edges, ..."
5. Elements of Optical Mineralogy: An Introduction to Microscopic Petrography by Newton Horace Winchell, Alexander Newton Winchell (1908)
"These minerals are rather easily decomposed by acids, usually with gelatinization;
they are readily fusible, and many of them in- tumesce before the ..."
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