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Definition of Tumidity
1. Noun. Slight swelling of an organ or part.
Generic synonyms: Lump, Puffiness, Swelling
Specialized synonyms: Tumescence
Derivative terms: Tumid, Tumid, Tumid, Tumid
Definition of Tumidity
1. n. The quality or state of being tumid.
Definition of Tumidity
1. Noun. The condition of being tumid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tumidity
1. the quality or state of being tumid [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumidity
Literary usage of Tumidity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of the Greek poets by John Addington Symonds (1877)
"His Difficulty and tumidity of Style. PINDAR, in spite of his great popularity
among the Greeks, offers no exception to the rule that we know but little of ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1816)
"In the second form of these affections, there are general fulness and deep colour
of the countenance; tumidity and enlargement of the veins of the upper ..."
3. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1841)
"Too much had been said about the tumidity of the tonsils, and of the tongue; ...
Now, tumidity of the tonsils induced a certain well-known and equally ..."
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