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tumescence

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10 lettersPronunciation /tjuːˈmɛsəns/Part of speech nounSorted cceeemnstuStarts with TEnds with E0 clues
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  1. tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues

Word origin

First attested 1725, from French tumescence, from Latin tumescēns (“swelling”), present participle of tumēscō (“to begin to swell”), from tumeō (“to swell”) + -ēscō (incohative suffix) (English -esce, in this form -escence), stem from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative stem of *tum- (“to swell”).

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