1. Diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen

Derived forms: detumescences

Type of: decline, diminution

Encyclopedia: Detumescence

• northern parula
• northern phalarope
• northern pike
• northern pin oak
• northern pitch pine
• northern pocket gopher
• northern porgy
• northern red oak
• Northern Rhodesia
• northern scup
• northern sea robin
• northern shrike
• northern snakehead
• Northern snow bedstraw
• Northern Spy
• northern storm petrel
• Northern Territory
• northern white cedar
• northern whiting
• northern woodsia
• Northerner
• northernmost
• northernness
• northing
• northland