intumesce
— Verb
– English
～ move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically; "Gases bubbled up from the earth"; "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America"
intumesce
— Verb
– English
～ expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
intumescence
— Noun
– English
～ swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion)
intumescence
— Noun
– English
～ the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
intumescency
— Noun
– English
～ the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
intumescency
— Noun
– English
～ swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion)
intumescent
— Adjective
– English
～ abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
intussuscept
— Verb
– English
～ introvert or invaginate; "the intussuscepted gut"
intussusception
— Noun
– English
～ (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall
intussusception
— Noun
– English
～ the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface; "the invagination of the blastula"