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/tjuːmˈɛsəns/
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NOUN
- tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues
How To Use tumescence In A Sentence
- In the past, it had always ended with Billy's orgasm, followed by detumescence, a poorly aimed kiss near the ear, a slipping away into stertorous sleep. Sympathy
- Their degree of sexual arousal was measured by penile plethysmography, which precisely measures and records male tumescence. Think Progress » Anti-Gay Evangelical Leader Resigns After Accusations of Gay Affair
- A large cock confers unflappable confidence in life. Sexual prowess is no problem for the well-endowed man; just a glimpse of his tumescence will send women everywhere into orgasmic fits.
- In the third place, the two processes, contrectation and detumescence, may occur simultaneously, without the detumescence being associated with the object of the contrectation impulse. The Sexual Life of the Child
- They then measured the arousal of the men by using a sensor which monitored penile tumescence.
- Originally, in the earlier ancestral types, reproduction was effected by fission or gemmation (simple division or budding), without any necessity for conjugation with another individual of the species; and reproduction by gemmation corresponds to the processes of detumescence, to the ejaculation of the spermatozoa by the male. The Sexual Life of the Child
- Of course, because the taxpayer has no choice but to cough up, this gangrenous tumescence keeps bulging as the services provided become more emaciated and anaemic. Five Go Camping In Hampshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- Approximate solutions were found for the rate of growth of a bubble in the process of intumescence.
- Here, an intumescence which was to become a mountain, there, an abyss which was to be filled with an ocean or a sea. The Underground City
- Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882