Intumescence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intumescence \In`tu*mes"cence\, n. [Cf. F. intumescence.]
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     1. The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the
        state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially,
        the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
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              The intumescence of nations.          --Johnson.
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     2. Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  intumescence
       n 1: swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion)
            [syn: {intumescency}]
       2: the swelling of certain substances when they are heated
          (often accompanied by release of water) [syn: {intumescency},
           {swelling}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "intumescence":
     benign tumor, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, bump,
     bunion, callosity, callus, cancer, carbuncle, carcinoma, corn,
     cyst, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema,
     excrescence, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, fungosity, fungus,
     furuncle, gassiness, growth, inflation, lump, malignant growth,
     metastatic tumor, meteorism, mole, morbid growth, neoplasm, nevus,
     nonmalignant tumor, outgrowth, pimple, pock, proud flesh, puff,
     puffiness, puffing, pustule, rising, sarcoma, sebaceous cyst,
     stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tumefaction,
     tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency,
     turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, verruca, wart, wen,
     windiness