A physical fooling of turgescence and congestion in that region, such as swimmers often feel, probably increased the impression. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
It is during this state withdrawn forcibly backwards over the glans, and in this situation, while being itself the first cause of constriction, it induces another -- namely, an arrest to the venous circulation, which is followed by a turgescence of the glans. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Considering all these facts, we must regard the fall of arterial pressure, the depression of the fontanelle, and the turgescence of the vessels of the limbs as phenomena concomitant with bodily rest and warmth, and we have no more right to assign the causation of sleep to cerebral anæmia than to any other alteration in the functions of the body, such as occur during sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
The erectile tissue whose turgescence is indispensable, no longer admits into its vascular. From Wordnik.com. [Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction] Reference
I am very glad that you will again discuss the view of the turgescence of the cells being the cause of the movement of parts. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
A physical feeling of turgescence and congestion in that region, such as swimmers often feel, probably increased the impression. From Wordnik.com. [Army Life in a Black Regiment]
There are no symptoms that are pathognomonic, but œdema of the scalp with turgescence of its veins, epistaxis, and convulsions followed by paralysis, are those most likely to be met with. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
These facts prove that the motions of the petiole depend on the alternate turgescence of the upper and lower half of the enlargement, situated at the point of articulation, and that contractility is not the principle of these motions. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Organic acids cause a turgescence of cells. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference
334 ON THE DISEASES A morbid paroxysm of anger appears in a pre - ternatural determination of blood to the brain, a turgescence of the blood vessels of the face, a red - ness of the eyes, an increased secretion of saliva, which is discharged by foaming at the mouth, great volubility, or a total suppression of speech, agitations of the fists, stamping of the feet, uncom - mon bodily strength, convulsions, hysteria, bleed - ing at the nose, apoplexy, and death. From Wordnik.com. [Medical inquiries and observations, upon the diseases of the mind] Reference
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