adj. Producing or tending to produce swelling or tumefaction. [Latin tumefaciēns, tumefacient-, present participle of tumefacere, to tumefy : tumēre, to swell; see teuə- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + facere, to make; see dhē- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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