Detumescence

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Detumescence \De`tu*mes"cence\, n. [L. detumescere to cease
     swelling; de + tumescere, tumere, to swell.]
     Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen. [R.]
     --Cudworth.
     [1913 Webster]