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US
/tuˈmɛsɪnt/
]
[ UK /tjuːmˈɛsənt/ ]
[ UK /tjuːmˈɛsənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids
swollen hands
tumescent tissue
puffy tumid flesh
he had a grossly distended stomach
hungry children with bloated stomachs
How To Use tumescent In A Sentence
- In the newer "tumescent" method, doctors inject a medicated solution into the fatty tissue to reduce bleeding, but in rare cases, it can cause fluid buildup in the lungs and fatal blood clots. Our Quest To Be Perfect
- The most common approach to liposuction today, known as tumescent liposuction, is also considered the safest. Best Syndication -
- Such alternative materials could have been spray-on nano-thermites substituted for intumescent paint or Interchar-like fireproofing primers (NASA 2006). 20 « August « 2008 « Niqnaq
- If alternative panels cannot be used then the ends of the sandwich panels must be sealed and locked together in a non-combustible wall intumescent seal.
- Not since victim-of-allegations-of-art-crime-serial-killing epic ‘I have not been to Oxford Town ‘was half-inched for Starship Troopers has a culture-concept car crash left me so aesthetically tumescent.
- 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
- The procedure may be performed under general or local ( "tumescent") anesthesia. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- The most common forms of liposuction today are referred to either as tumescent or wet techniques.
- I do not advise trephining in the secondary glaucoma following intumescent cataract, for in such cases the semi-fluid lens bulges into and blocks the trephine hole. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
- The probability of dominant males siring infants decreased when the number of simultaneously tumescent females increased.