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Definition of Tumescences
1. tumescence [n] - See also: tumescence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumescences
Literary usage of Tumescences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Methodist Review (1884)
"The religious symbols of that far-off age were les elevations et tumescences ...
les tumescences comme image du sein maternel en 6tat de pregnation et les ..."
2. Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole; a Study of by William Fairfield Warren (1885)
"The religious symbols of that far-off age were " les elevations et tumescences
terrestres, natu- relles ou artificielles, et les cavites souterraines ..."
3. The Glands Regulating Personality: A Study of the Glands of Internal by Louis Berman (1921)
"In consequence of changes of concentration in the blood of the various internal
secretions, tensions, movements and tumescences, as well as relaxations, ..."
4. The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper ... on the Principles and Practice of Surgery by Astley Cooper, Frederick Tyrrell (1825)
"... puberty two tumescences will appear; the one a small sphere directly surrounding
the nipple; which then rather sinks into this little swelling; ..."
5. The Economy of the Animal Kingdom, Considered Anatomically, Physically, and by Emanuel Swedenborg (1918)
"These tumescences are called ganglia, ganglions, gangli- form plexuses, nodes,
tumors, and olivary bodies of the nerves. For the most part they are of an ..."
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