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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
turgescent /təːˈdʒɛs(ə)nt/

▶adjective chiefly technical becoming or seeming swollen or distended.

– derivatives
turgescence noun.

– origin C18: from L. turgescent-, turgescere ‘begin to swell’, from turgere ‘to swell’.

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