What's the difference between tumid and turgent?

Tumid


Definition:

  • (a.) Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.
  • (a.) Rising above the level; protuberant.
  • (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most frequent clinical symptoms are dyspnea, tumid cervical veins and moist rales in the lungs.
  • (2) Salbutamol, hydralazine, lignocaine and bupivacaine caused tumidity but not erection.
  • (3) Metaraminol and guanethidine caused shrinkage followed by tumidity.
  • (4) The tetrad of fever, toxic look, bronchitic chest, tumid tympanitic abdomen and splenomegaly was a good sign for suggestion of typhoid diagnosis.
  • (5) They believe that these antibodies, in local use, may advantageously substitute the surgery and the radiotherapy, meanly in those external ear tumidities and back of the nose, owing to a hurtful action in cartilage, provoked by radiotherapy.

Turgent


Definition:

  • (a.) Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors.
  • (a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.

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