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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tumescent /tjʊˈmɛs(ə)nt/

▶adjective swollen or becoming swollen.

– derivatives
tumescence noun,
tumescently adverb.

– origin C19: from L. tumescent-, tumescere ‘begin to swell’, from tumere ‘to swell’.

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