tumescent

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Rainwater collecting barrels are often tumescent plastic affairs — and considerable eyesores.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021

Dr. Keith J. Ruskin, an anesthesiology professor at Yale University School of Medicine, said doctors using tumescent anesthesia must avoid an overdose, which can lead to seizures and abnormal heartbeats.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2010

One character develops a small tail, another a second mouth at the base of his neck, and others sprout tumescent growths on the face or webbing between their digits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Auricle -cula: an appendage resembling a little ear; in Odonata the tumescent area at the sides of the second abdominal segment: in Andrenidae, a short membranous process placed laterally on the ligula.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

But, on the other hand, the spirit manifests itself sometimes in exuberance, as when Urquhart and Motteux metagrobolized Rabelais into something almost more tumescent and overwhelming than the original.

From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by Marsh, A.