turgescence

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Noun

turgescence (countable and uncountable, plural turgescences)

  1. The act of swelling, or state of being swollen or turgescent.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
      the instant turgescence is not to be taken off
    • 1842, Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper’s Manual: Comprising Everything Related to Cookery, Diet, Economy and Medicine. By Gibbons Merle. The Medical Portion of the Work by John Reitch, M.D., London: William Strange, 21, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 360, column 2:
      If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.
  2. Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.
    • 1813, Monthly Review:
      A marked tendency to affectation, to turgescence.

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Noun

turgescence f (plural turgescences)

  1. swelling
  2. turgor

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