detumescencen.
/diːtjuːˈmɛsəns/ Subsidence from swelling, or (figurative) from tumult.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > process of healing of an injury, etc. > [noun] > subsidence from swelling
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1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 581 The Wider the Circulating Wave grows, still hath it the more Subsidence and Detumescence.
1704 W. Cowper in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1584 Unfitness for its retraction till there is a detumescence of its Glans.
1883 Farrar & Poole Gen. Aims Teacher 10 The School was in the detumescence of a most ruinous rebellion.
1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Detumescence, the subsidence of a swelling, or the absorption of a tumour.
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