turgescence
English
Alternative forms
- turgescency
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɜː(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒɛsəns/
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Noun
turgescence (countable and uncountable, plural turgescences)
- The act of swelling, or state of being swollen or turgescent.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
- 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 562334031, 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.
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- Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity.
- 1813, Monthly Review:
- A marked tendency to affectation, to turgescence.
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Synonyms
- tumescence
- tumidity
- turgidity
- turgor
French
Noun
turgescence f (plural turgescences)
- swelling
- turgor
Further reading
- “turgescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.