Tentigo
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Penile erection or tumescence; especially, pathological erection (priapism). archaic, uncountable
"The emission of semen is excited by its abundance in the vesicles and by sexual instinct: it is effected by the violent tentigo which prevents the course of the urine, and, as it were, throws the way open for the semen; by a kind of spasmodic contraction of the vesiculæ seminales, […]"
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More examples"The emission of semen is excited by its abundance in the vesicles and by sexual instinct: it is effected by the violent tentigo which prevents the course of the urine, and, as it were, throws the way open for the semen; by a kind of spasmodic contraction of the vesiculæ seminales, […]"
Etymology
From Latin tentīgō (“lust”), from tendō (“stretch”).
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