Usually means: Reddening of skin; increased blood flow.
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  1. rubefaction: Collins English Dictionary
  2. rubefaction: Wordnik
  3. rubefaction: Wiktionary
  4. rubefaction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. rubefaction: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. rubefaction: Dictionary.com
  7. Rubefaction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. rubefaction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Rubefaction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. rubefaction: FreeDictionary.org
  11. rubefaction: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. Rubefaction: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rubefaction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. rubefaction: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rubefaction)

▸ noun:  reddening, the act or process of making red.

Similar:
rubefacience, rufousness, rufescence, rutilation, erubescence, refrication, erubescency, rufous, rubedo, rubrification, more...

Opposite:
blanching, whitening, paling

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Similar:
rubefacience, rufousness, rufescence, rutilation, erubescence, refrication, erubescency, rufous, rubedo, rubrification, more...

Opposite:
blanching, whitening, paling



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