detumescence

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:02:17

De`tu*mes"cence (?), n. [L. detumescere to cease swelling; de + tumescere, tumere, to swell.]

Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.

[R.]

Cudworth.

 

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