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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tumefy .
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Examples
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When these are reduced, if the hands are contracted, and become trembling, convulsion and delirium seize such a person; but blisters break out on the eyebrow, erythema takes place, the one eyelid being tumefied overtops the other, a hard inflammation sets in, the eye become strongly swelled, and the delirium increases much, but makes its attacks rather at night than by day.
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Whence it comes that they are gorged and tumefied.
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Crowe, his head had almost resumed its natural dimensions, but then his whole face was so covered with a livid suffusion, his nose appeared so flat, and his lips so tumefied, that he might very well have passed for a Caffre or Ethiopian.
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Occasionally, the joints assume a tumefied appearance, generally ulcerating, and causing painful wounds.
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At another time, his tongue having become swollen and tumefied, it was restored to its natural size and condition by licking the railing of the tomb of this saint.
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten
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At this time the condition of the patient was as follows: The face presented the appearance known as facies hippocratica: the eyeballs were prominent, the corneæ glassy, the pupils widely dilated, not acting to light, and there was no reflex action of the conjunctivæ; the lips were livid, the tongue tumefied, but pallid, the skin ashy pale, the cutaneous tissues apparently devoid of elasticity.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various
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Their skins and faces were tumefied by the wind, salt water and sun; the epidermis of their hands was renewed three times; their legs were anchylosed; and they were worn out.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 Various
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Whence it comes that they are gorged and tumefied.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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He lay upon the table, screaming, because his abdomen was very painful and his hip was all tumefied.
The New Book of Martyrs Georges Duhamel 1925
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Whence it comes that they are gorged and tumefied.
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