erethism
/er-uh-thiz-uhm/US // ˈɛr əˌθɪz əm //UK // (ˈɛrɪˌθɪzəm) //
侵蚀主义,啮合主义
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Physiology.
- : an unusual or excessive degree of irritability or stimulation in an organ or tissue.
Examples
Normally, there appears to be no erethism of the sexual organs during the process of love-making.
In all these cases it is worthy of remark that there was present an unusual degree of cerebral erethism.
They lose control over their vasomotor system to some extent as a result of this systemic erethism.
At the same time they consider that, while erethism is less, sexuality is greater than in men.
But ought this excess of nervous erethism to be referred necessarily to the peculiar nature of the Urning?
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