tumescence

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• Until the climax of the sexual erethism, woman is for man the acme of supreme desire; but with detumescence the emotions tend to swing to the opposite pole, and excitement and longing are forgotten in the mood of repugnance and exhaustion. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
• There is the period of tumescence, and the ecbole constituting the detumescence. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
• If in one of these points the barometer stands a few lines lower than in the other, the water will rise where it finds the least pressure of air, and this local intumescence will continue, till, from the effect of the wind, the equilibrium of the air is restored. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
• In the northern hemisphere, or at any rate in the part occupied by British America and the north of the United States, this phenomenon is explained by the flat conformation of the territories bordering on the pole, and on which there is no intumescence of the soil to oppose any obstacle to the north winds; here, in Lincoln Island, this explanation would not suffice. The Secret of the Island
• But when the association between the processes of detumescence and those of contrectation has not yet occurred, the voluptuous sensation is independent of the contrectation impulse. The Sexual Life of the Child
• It is very possible that oxytocin plays a role in the aftermath of sex as well, in the role of "postorgasmic penile detumescence". ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• 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
• For our present purpose hypertrophy may be considered as it affects the axile or the foliar organs, and also according to the way in which the increased size is manifested, as by increased thickness or swelling -- intumescence, or by augmented length-elongation, by expansion or flattening, or, lastly, by the formation of excrescences or outgrowths, which may be classed under the head of luxuriance or enation. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• It should be noticed that contraction of the smooth muscles results in relaxation or detumescence.
• Association of contrectation and detumescence, 81-87 theory of sexual perversions, 130-133 The Sexual Life of the Child