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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈt(j)uːmɪfaɪ/

動詞

tumefy (三人称単数 現在形 tumefies, 現在分詞 tumefying, 過去形および過去分詞形 tumefied)

1. (transitive) To cause to swell.
   • 1840, Thomas De Quincey, Theory of Greek Tragedy (published in Blackwood's Magazine)

     to swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought

2. (intransitive) To swell; to rise into a tumour.
   • 1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery, [...] To which is Annexed, a Chirurgical Dispensatory, [...], London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, OCLC 745299684, page 254:

     […] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (または rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."

派生語

• tumefaction

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