Synonym: intumescency, swelling. Similar words: intumescent, tumescence, detumescence, tumescent, quiescence, incandescence, senescence, florescence. Meaning: [‚ɪntuː'mesns /-tju-] 
n. 1. swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) 2. the swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water).
n. 1. swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) 2. the swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water). 
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1. It is called intumescence mastic.
2. Results:The clinical manifestation of CSD could be diversified, but fever and lymphonode intumescence were frequently occured. lymphoid pathology biopsy could diagnose it.
3. At the frozen storage of 90 days , some of collagen micro - fibrils in stoma showed intumescence.
4. Based on those experiments, a mathematic model of process of intumescence was established with the neglect of the transfer motion of the bubble.
5. There are lymph gland inflammation, malignant lymphoma and all kinds of metastatic cancer, which often cause intumescence of shallow lymph gland.
6. Approximate solutions were found for the rate of growth of a bubble in the process of intumescence.
7. The main fertilizing period was before flower bud differentiation and at alabastrum intumescence stage.
More similar words: intumescent, tumescence, detumescence, tumescent, quiescence, incandescence, senescence, florescence, adolescence, iridescence, putrescence, excrescence, coalescence, evanescence, opalescence, luminescence, concrescence, obsolescence, fluorescence, acquiescence, effervescence, inflorescence, convalescence, efflorescence, recrudescence, preadolescence, bioluminescence, chemiluminescence, planned obsolescence, phosphorescence.