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Definition of Detumescence
1. Noun. Diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen.
Definition of Detumescence
1. n. Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.
Definition of Detumescence
1. Noun. The act of subsiding from a swollen state, especially the relaxation of an erect penis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Detumescence
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Detumescence
1. Subsidence of a swelling. Origin: L. De, from, + tumesco, to swell up, fr. Tumeo, to swell (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detumescence
Literary usage of Detumescence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State by Hermann Senator, Siegfried Kaminer (1905)
"It is only rarely that the desire for detumescence is absent in a man if the genital
... Occasionally, it is true, the desire for detumescence and that for ..."
2. Rational Sex Ethics: A Physiological and Psychological Study of the Sex by Walter Franklin Robie (1916)
"The primary part is the impulse to detumescence, which is to relieve the tension
of the sexual organs, similar to the impulse to relieve a full bladder. ..."
3. The Sexual life of the child by Albert Moll (1919)
"In most cases, the complete association of the processes of detumescence and ...
Although, as we have seen, the processes both of detumescence and of ..."
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