Definition of Intumiscence

Definition of Intumiscence

In`tu*mes"cence (?), n. [Cf. F. intumescence.]

1. The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.

The intumescence of nations.

Johnson.

2. Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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