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tumescence

noun
/tjuːˈmɛsəns/UK

Etymology

First attested 1725, from French tumescence, from Latin tumescēns (“swelling”), present participle of tumēscō (“to begin to swell”), from tumeō (“to swell”) + -ēscō (incohative suffix) (English -esce, in this form -escence), stem from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative stem of *tum- (“to swell”).

  1. derived from *tum-éh₁-✻ — “to be swelling”
  2. derived from tumescēns — “swelling”
  3. borrowed from tumescence

Definitions

  1. A swelling due to the presence of fluid.

  2. A swollen bodily organ

    A swollen bodily organ; used especially of erectile tissue.

The neighborhood

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