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Detumescence

noun
1.
Diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen.





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"Detumescence" Quotes from Famous Books



... persons, but in my case, about nine and one-eighth days. May not the ecbolic period in men be compared to the menstrual period in women, and be an example of the greater katabolic activity of men? There is the period of tumescence, and the ecbole constituting the detumescence. The week-end holiday would hasten the detumescence, but about every third week-end there would tend to be delay to enable the system to get back into its regulation nine or ten days' stride. This might possibly be the ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


Words linked to "Detumescence" :   diminution, decline


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