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flaccidity

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flaccidity, flaccidness
[flaksid′itē]
See flaccid.

flaccidity
quality of lack of tone of muscular or vascular organ or tissue.


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This flaccidity of your throat will undoubtedly cause it to close while you sleep, and hence you WILL snore.
However, "emboldened by the moral flaccidity that swept through the society in the 1970s, she finally did work up the nerve to pull the plug on their marriage.
Contraction of the trabecular smooth muscle reopens the venous channels, allowing the blood to be expelled, which results in flaccidity or detumescence.
 
 
 
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