"tumefaction" meaning in English

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          "text": "1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 6, Prop. 2, p. 152,\nThe common Signs and Effects of weak Fibres are Paleness, Smoothness, Coldness of the Skin, Colour of the Blood not Florid (for what maketh that is a strong action of the Solids) a weak Pulse, Tumefactions in the whole Body or Parts, Stagnation of Humours […]"
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          "ref": "1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 11, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary, New York: Knopf, published 1919, page 226",
          "text": "The livid tumefaction spread over the leg, with blisters here and there, whence there oozed a black liquid. Matters were taking a serious turn.",
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