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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 in·tu·mes·cence /ˌɪntʊˈmɛsṇ(t)s, tjʊ-/
 膨脹,腫大

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 in·tu·mes·cence /-ˈmɛsṇ(t)s/ 名詞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·tu·mes·cence n.
 1. The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
    The intumescence of nations.   --Johnson.
 2. Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 intumescence
      n 1: swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion)
           [syn: intumescency]
      2: the swelling of certain substances when they are heated
         (often accompanied by release of water) [syn: intumescency,
          swelling]