(a.) Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors.
(a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.
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Turgid
Definition:
(a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
(a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) These cells infiltrated the vessels the walls of which were turgid but without fibrinoid necrosis (fig.
(2) From our experience and the recent literature, ultrasound shows a good reliability for the diagnosis of breast diseases during pregnancy and lactation in spite of oedema and breast turgidity, distinctive of these periods.
(3) Poland hold nerve after Switzerland’s Granit Xhaka blazes penalty wide Read more It was a turgid and torturous game, heavy on physicality and sorely lacking in class, particularly in the final third.
(4) The followup examination included palpation of the testes, at which time turgidity and consistency on both sides were judged.
(5) Thinking of this kind makes Ai not only a great artist, but a thinker of the world's next political and intellectual phase, beyond the turgid babble of contemporary politics.
(6) What makes it an almost uniquely powerful incident, however, is not the violence or the palpable menace but the open and repeated admission of racism, delivered through the turgid medium of the chant “ We’re racist, we’re racist and that’s the way we like it .” Almost no one in western societies admits to being racist.
(7) A biopsy specimen was obtained from the colon, which was thick and turgid.
(8) Or, if you prefer, Barney Ronay's analysis of a "turgid, tactically constipated semi-final”, "a deeply uninspiring match", "a game of no shots, no incident and a crushing sense of caution", "120 minutes of something that resembled a groggy second cousin of high-grade tournament football".
(9) In their wake has come a slew of me-too dramas, which have lurched between the well-made and just about worthy to the downright turgid, and in certain cases amounted to little more than excuses for veteran Hollywood stars to grab a piece of that TV-is-the-new-cinema action.
(10) Some are active growing, turgid cells, with thin protoplasts tightly pressed against their walls; in others the protoplasts may spontaneously withdraw from the wall; in still others the protoplasts disorganize, and walls thicken and become sculptured as the cells differentiate and even senesce.
(11) A scanning electron microscopical study of the third ventricular ependyma on the seventh postoperative day revealed pronounced surface modifications in the experimental animal which included (i) bulbous dilatations in the ciliary shafts with frequent apical blebbing, and an overall turgid appearance of most cilia; (ii) a profusion of tall and stout microvilli in the non-ciliated zones; (iii) an increase in the size and number of blebs; and (iv) a greater number of supraependymal cells especially on the ventricular floor.
(12) If this trend continues, China will fall back to the time when there isn’t any good literary work.” One foreign publisher said the impact was already noticeable at international book fairs where the China section had become a “dead zone” in which the most prominent work was Xi Jinping’s turgid 515-page tome on governance.
(13) Of the 8 patients who showed pronounced inflammatory cell reactions, atrophy of the testis was found later in 7; 4 of the patients who did not show any inflammatory cell reactions had normal testis size and turgidity.
(14) Thus the Koch-type reactions were indubitably more intense in inflammatory terms than the non-turgid variant form, but the results of this study do not exclude the possibility that there were underlying qualitative differences in pathogenesis between reactions of the two types as well as the obvious difference in severity.
(15) All patients were independently classified based on the evaluation of a minimum of one night of nocturnal penile tumescence recording, a sleep lab technician's rating of penile turgidity of erections, Doppler determination of penile blood flow, determination of serum prolactin and testosterone levels.
(16) Since then we have seen three bailouts, umpteen politicians driven from office, public protests, stock market plunges (and rallies), nail-biting deadlines, dramatic (and occasionally turgid) Summits.
(17) Fullness, distention, turgidity, thickening, induration, and other gross changes of the epididymides, including the formation of cystic spermatic granuloma, or spermatocele, indicated inadequate removal of spermatozoa and testicular fluid from the sequestrated proximal seminal ducts and the epididymis.
(18) Cells dissociated from normal prelactating mouse mammary glands or from spontaneous mammary adenocarcinomas, when grown at high density on an impermeable substrate, form nonproliferating, confluent, epithelial pavements in which turgid, blister-like domes appear as a result of fluid accumulation beneath the cell layer.
(19) The gonadotrophin changes were accompanied by an initial increase in the weight and turgidity of the testes which then became flaccid and atrophied.
(20) Repeated methanol treatments with glycine caused increased turgidity and stimulated plant growth without injury under indirect sunlight, but indoors with artificial illumination, foliar damage developed after 48 hr.