tumescence
IPA: tumˈɛsʌns
noun
- A swelling due to the presence of fluid.
- A swollen bodily organ; used especially of erectile tissue.
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Examples of "tumescence" in Sentences
- What is the morbidity of vacuum tumescence devices
- Specifically it also shows nipple tumescence in detail.
- The prostate gland also achieves tumescence during an erection.
- Tumescence is the quality or state of being tumescent or swollen.
- For those who know what "tumescence" is, the term makes a lot of sense.
- Viagra and other ED medications help increase male tumescence and enhance performance issues.
- It is tumescence which is the really essential part of the process, and we cannot afford, with Moll, to ignore it altogether.
- The Liberals let the budget pass, which left the Harper government in office but in a state of political semi-tumescence, which is where it's been since those first days.
- Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse.
- Curbishley proceeded to ramp up the levels of tumescence by looking sleek and smooth and – to be frank – insufficiently excited by Transfer Deadline Day despite the huge clock ticking away just beneath his neatly folded hands.
- The justification for using the term "tumescence," which I here propose, is to be found in the fact that vascular congestion, more especially of the parts related to generation, is an essential preliminary to acute sexual desire.
- This description clearly brings out the fundamentally vascular character of the process I have termed "tumescence"; it must be added, however, that in man the nervous elements in the process tend to become more conspicuous, and more or less obliterate these primitive limitations of sexual desire.
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