meaning of turgidus
1. 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.
2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
3. 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"
Related Words
turgid | turgidity | turgidly | turgidness | turgidous |
