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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

detumescence
    n 1: diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen