detumescence
/dee-too-mes-uhns, -tyoo-/US // ˌdi tuˈmɛs əns, -tyu- //UK // (ˌdiːtjʊˈmɛsəns) //
消肿,消肿剂,消肿法,排烟
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : reduction or subsidence of swelling.
Examples
But in these cases also, the complete fusion of the processes of detumescence and contrectation occurs very gradually.
This is true of both components of the sexual impulse, of the phenomena of contrectation, no less than of those of detumescence.
The detumescence-impulse is sometimes the sole manifestation of the sexual impulse.
It is equally an incident, highly important though not primitive and fundamental, of detumescence.
A state of tumescence is not normally constant, and tumescence must be obtained before detumescence is possible.
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