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Definition of Tumescence
1. Noun. Tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues.
Definition of Tumescence
1. n. The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence.
Definition of Tumescence
1. Noun. A swelling due to the presence of fluid. ¹
2. Noun. A swollen bodily organ; used especially of erectile tissue. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tumescence
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Medical Definition of Tumescence
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1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride. "Rise to the swelling of the voiceless sea." (Coleridge)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumescence
Literary usage of Tumescence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Analysis of the Sexual Impulse: Love and Pain; the Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis (1913)
"... Importance of tumescence—Illustrated by the Phenomena of Courtship in Animals
and in Man—The Object of Courtship is to Produce Sexual tumescence—The ..."
2. Studies in the Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis (1913)
"... Selection—Its Psychological Aspect—Sexual Selection a Part of Natural
Selection—The Fundamental Importance of tumescence—Illustrated by the Phenomena of ..."
3. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"The psychology of sex is mainly concerned with tumescence. When the elected couple
are at length united and the moment of de- tumescence occurs the higher ..."
4. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"So far from the instinct of tumescence naturally needing to be crushed, it needs,
on the contrary, in either sex to be submitted to the most elaborate and ..."
5. Erotic Symbolism: The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis (1905)
"Detumescence is normally linked closely to tumescence. tumescence is the piling
on of the fuel; detumescence is the leaping out of the devouring flame ..."
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