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n. The act or process of puffing or swelling.

n. A swollen condition.

n. A puffy or swollen part.

n. The process or result of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumour.

n. The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a tumor; a swelling.

n. The act or process of swelling or rising into a tumor; also, the condition of being tumefied or swollen.

n. That which is tumefied or swollen; a tumid part; a tumor.

n. the process of tumefying; the organic process whereby tissue becomes swollen by the accumulation of fluid within it

"All this should be well known, and if you choose you may prognosticate safely that no impediment, small or great, will result from such an injury at the shoulder, only there will be a deformity in the place, for the bone cannot be properly restored to its natural situation, but there must necessarily be more or less tumefaction in the upper part."

biological process    organic process   

tumor    swelling