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Tumescent   /tumˈɛsɪnt/   Listen
Tumescent

adjective
1.
Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas.  Synonyms: intumescent, puffy, tumid, turgid.  "He had a grossly distended stomach" , "Eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids" , "Swollen hands" , "Tumescent tissue" , "Puffy tumid flesh"






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"Tumescent" Quotes from Famous Books



... other parts of the body. In a quiescent, or unexcited condition, in the average man, this organ is from three to four inches long and about an inch or more in diameter. It hangs limp and pendent in this state, retired and in evidence not at all. In its excited, or tumescent condition (the word tumescent means swelled, and is the technical word for describing the erect condition of the penis) it becomes enlarged and rigid, its size in this state being, on an average, six or seven ...
— Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living • H.W. Long



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