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tumescence|tjuːˈmɛsəns|
[f. next, corresp. to a Latin type *tumēscentia.]
A becoming tumid, swelling up; a tendency to tumidity; spec. the swelling of a volcano as a result of increasing pressure of magma inside it. Also concr. a tumid part, a swelling.
1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 321 Tumescence..appears to characterize the human as it does the vegetable productions of Inner Africa. 1874Nasmyth & Carpenter Moon Contents p. xiii, Scrope's Hypothesis of Terrestrial Tumescences. 1901–6H. Ellis in Westermarck Orig. & Devel. Moral Ideas xl. (1908) II. 374 Erethistic excitement which produces sexual tumescence. 1943Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CCXLI. 243 Easterly tilt has long been known to indicate tumescence of Mauna Loa accompanying the rise of magma pressure preceding eruption. 1976P. Francis Volcanoes x. 310 The tumescence of the Hawaiian volcanoes, however, is slight, only one metre or so at the summit. |