Usually means: Swelling due to internal pressure.
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  1. extumescence: Wordnik
  2. extumescence: Wiktionary
  3. Extumescence: Dictionary.com
  4. Extumescence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. extumescence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Extumescence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. extumescence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. extumescence: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Extumescence: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extumescence)

▸ noun:  A swelling or rising.

Similar:
intumescence, extuberance, extuberancy, excrescency, swelling, turgescence, exultance, ebullience, outswelling, incrassation, more...

Opposite:
deflation, shrinkage, contraction

Types:
blister, pimple, cyst, blackhead, whitehead, more...

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Similar:
intumescence, extuberance, extuberancy, excrescency, swelling, turgescence, exultance, ebullience, outswelling, incrassation, more...

Opposite:
deflation, shrinkage, contraction

Types:
blister, pimple, cyst, blackhead, whitehead, more...



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