tumefaction
tumescence

Then tumefaction will begin, and on that bloat a fetid mold will generate.

The combined effects of sea water and the tumefaction of the tissues had given the face a sleeker and less youthful look.

In medical parlance, swelling, turgescence or tumefaction is a transient abnormal enlargement of a body part or area not caused by proliferation of cells.

Related terms are common in the medical literature, where the nouns tumefaction and tumescence (derived from the adjective tumefied), are current medical terms for non-neoplastic swelling.

I really wanted to see what had become of that mass of inflammation and tumefaction under her tail and I approached her carefully, jockeying her bit by bit into the bottom corner of the field.

Doctors found tumefaction of his feet, legs and thighs, and accumulation of fat within the abdomen, but other than scaly and thickened skin on his legs caused by previous attacks of erysipelas, he had no health problems.

My plan called for the exploitation of his nocturnal tumescence.

There was really no reason for it, but the tumescence refused to subside.

He felt a stir of tumescence under the sheets.

"Whenever the pressure of tumescence becomes intolerable, I seek you out."

Through the water, she watched the black tumescence creep avidly up his arm.

Is this how it ends for the avant-garde, in an old man's endless dreams of tumescence?

I started breathing heavy through my nose as the nipples hardened with tumescence!

But I know that those pix would give a skeleton one last case of raging tumescence.

I assure you that your previous one-inch tumescence was too small."

All of us need the right environment, the right mood, in order to operate at full mental tumescence.

Tumescence is the quality or state of being tumescent or swollen.

A triumph once more of virtue over tumescence.

Hawk, taken by surprise at the mention of Maggie's name, has lost much of his tumescence.

Everything, you realize, depends on this precarious tumescence.

Prior was largely finished, but his members retained tumescence, and he held them in place while she rocked herself into ecstasy.

Grim, black, and ruinous, it might have been some meaningless tumescence erupted by marine forces.

Tumescence rearing its ugly head when least appropriate.

For speed of tumescence, naked siblings are tops.

He felt his blood begin to heat,; and the tumescence in his groin which always accompanied the approach to conquest.

One long fingernail stroked lightly, almost meditatively along his gathering tumescence.

Her body swayed to the rhythm of the music, rubbing her inside tissues against his tumescence.

The hideous tumescence lessened: the prosthetic did not emit fluid.

I want to swing off the axis where our loins meet in wetness and tumescence."

Warmbloodedness came forth several times, as did live birth and even penile tumescence.