单词 | detumescence |
释义 | detumescence|diːtjuːˈmɛsəns| [f. L. dētumēscĕre to cease or subside from swelling (f. de- I. 6 + tumēscĕre to begin to swell): see -ence. So in mod.F. (1792 in Hatzf.-Darm.)] Subsidence from swelling, or (fig.) from tumult.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 581 The Wider the Circulating Wave grows, still hath it the more Subsidence and Detumescence. 1704W. Cowper in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1584 Unfitness for its retraction till there is a detumescence of its Glans. 1883Farrar & Poole Gen. Aims Teacher 10 The School was in the detumescence of a most ruinous rebellion. 1883Syd. Soc. Lex., Detumescence, the subsidence of a swelling, or the absorption of a tumour. |

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