1. swellings or enlargements, especially abnormal ones
Usage: medical; formal
2. the process of swelling up or becoming enlarged
Usage: formal

Examples

• The doctor examined the intumescences on the patient’s arm.
• Plant pathologists studied the intumescences caused by the viral infection.
• The medication helped reduce the painful intumescences in her joints.
• Intumescences of the lymph nodes indicated a possible infection.
• The botanist noted unusual intumescences on the tree bark.
• Heat and pressure can cause intumescences in certain materials.