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tumefied
Example Sentences
He lay upon the table, screaming, because his abdomen was very painful and his hip was all tumefied.
Corpses soon became decomposed, exposed to the sun's torrid rays; the tumefied faces of the dead took on the colour of pitch.
Occasionally, the joints assume a tumefied appearance, generally ulcerating, and causing painful wounds.
In variola the rosy shallow ulcer and healthy pus, with the acutely tumefied glands, should not be mistaken, at least after a day.
The girl's leg was horribly swollen; the part round the serpent's bite, terribly tumefied, was already taking a greenish hue.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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