Meaning of priapism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A potentially painful or harmful medical condition in which the erect penis does not return to its flaccid state (despite the absence of both physical and psychological stimulation), often as a result of a spinal injury.
   uncountable
2. An instance of this.
   countable
3. The obsessive focus on one's genitals or on the need for genital gratification.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

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Examples

“Phosphorus has long been considered a powerful stimulant. It acts upon the generative organism, it is recorded, in a manner to cause the most violent priapisms.”

“[M]any on the right have found themselves justifying our current president's priapism with the same arguments that liberals once used to excuse Clinton.”

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