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How to pronounce tumescence in English?

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Type Words
Type of tumidity, tumidness
Derivation tumescent

Examples of tumescence

tumescence
His tumescence serves as a running joke throughout the episode.
From the latimes.com
He will be ready to believe anything, however absurd, so long as he is in his state of psychic tumescence.
From the theatlantic.com
Erection and protrusion take place gradually, by the increasing tumescence of the erectile vascular tissue in the corpus cavernosum penis.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The final genital response stage recognizes that with both attention and closer proximity, physical reactions result in genital tumescence.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Balut is the extraordinary Filipino dish of a chicken or duck embryo boiled and sucked from its shell, often credited with the power to cause tumescence.
From the guardian.co.uk
When did tumescence become a medical necessity, and how did health reform rise from its long slumber to become an issue of burning national interest?
From the time.com
Send Veronica out in a low-cut dress at the crack of dawn to charm the milkman to visible tumescence while Ian sneaks around to the back of the truck to liberate some dairy products.
From the sfgate.com
She has told me repeatedly that my presence is far more important than my tumescence, and if it comes to that I'll find a way to show her I appreciate her saying so.
From the well.blogs.nytimes.com
If you use this product after bite by insects such as mosquito, bee, flea, louse etc., the tumescence will be eliminated in a short time so as to avoid chafing.
From the techcrunch.com
What greater incitement to tumescence is there for any red-blooded gentleman than the sight of the good doctor herself, grinning alluringly from the packet?
From the guardian.co.uk
The obsessions with sex and death that are palpable in his scenes of heavy leather are still visible in the phallic tumescence and mortal shadows of Calla Lily, 1984.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues
  • (tumesce) swell: expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
  • (tumescent) puffy: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
  • Tumescence is the quality or state of being tumescent or swollen. Tumescence usually refers to the normal engorgement with blood (vascular congestion) of the erectile tissues, marking sexual excitation and possible readiness for sexual activity. ...
  • A swelling due to the presence of fluid; A swollen bodily organ; used especially of erectile tissue
  • (tumescent) swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue; inflated or overblown
  • (Tumescent) The use of saline with lidocaine and epinephrine injected into fat prior to liposuction. This allows for decreased bruising and easier removal of tissue.
  • Hardening and expansion of the penis: penile erection. Commonly referred to as nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT) in sleep recordings.
  • Swelling of the sexual skin of females during estrus.