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tumesce

VERB
  1. expand abnormally
    The bellies of the starving children are swelling

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  • Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
  • Originally, in the earlier ancestral types, reproduction was effected by fission or gemmation (simple division or budding), without any necessity for conjugation with another individual of the species; and reproduction by gemmation corresponds to the processes of detumescence, to the ejaculation of the spermatozoa by the male. The Sexual Life of the Child
  • The procedure may be performed under general or local ( "tumescent") anesthesia. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • Of course, because the taxpayer has no choice but to cough up, this gangrenous tumescence keeps bulging as the services provided become more emaciated and anaemic. Five Go Camping In Hampshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Approximate solutions were found for the rate of growth of a bubble in the process of intumescence.
  • As this part of the act continues, it is the most natural thing in the world that the sex organs should tumesce, and that there should be Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise
  • Here, an intumescence which was to become a mountain, there, an abyss which was to be filled with an ocean or a sea. The Underground City
  • In its excited, or tumescent condition (the word tumescent means swelled, and is the technical word for describing the erect condition of the penis) it becomes enlarged and rigid, its size in this state being, on an average, six or seven inches long, and from an inch-and-a-half to two inches in diameter. Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise
  • Common wisdom, over the past seven years, has been that consumers would spend money to tumesce just two things on the internet – their wallet and their wanker. Hey Murdoch, Take a lesson from the Smut Kings - Jim Louderback - MediaBizBloggers
  • The first two are evident, as when it fuses it runs into a globule; the last, by inspecting it before and after the heating with a magnifying glass; sometimes it froths up when heated, and is then said to "intumesce;" or, if it flies to fragments, "decrepitates. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
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