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n. A swelling or enlarging.

n. A swollen condition.

n. A swollen part or organ.

n. A swelling due to the presence of fluid.

n. A swollen bodily organ; used especially of erectile tissue.

n. The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence; -- applied especially to the state of swelling of the vascular tissue in the male and female sex organs when they have been stimulated to readiness for sexual intercourse.

n. The state of growing tumid; tumefaction.

n. A swelling, tumid part, or tumor; an intumescence.

n. tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues

"The Liberals let the budget pass, which left the Harper government in office but in a state of political semi-tumescence, which is where it's been since those first days."

tumidity    tumidness   

tumescent   

intumescence   

contrectation    detumescence    anæsthesia    fascicles    erethism    bloodletting    engorgement    spearing    glitzy    hypoxemia