Tumefied [adjective]

Definition of Tumefied:

swollen

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Sentence/Example of Tumefied:

The tumefied portions of the check and lip are pale, hard, unctuous, and glistening.

The tonsil is swollen, and the mucous membrane of the palate and the palatine folds is congested and often tumefied.

Occasionally, the joints assume a tumefied appearance, generally ulcerating, and causing painful wounds.

He lay upon the table, screaming, because his abdomen was very painful and his hip was all tumefied.

Corpses soon became decomposed, exposed to the sun's torrid rays; the tumefied faces of the dead took on the colour of pitch.

Sometimes the mouth is kept open, permitting the tumefied tongue to protrude.