priapism

English

Etymology

From Latin priapismus, from Priapus (“the god of procreation, the penis”) +‎ -ism, from Ancient Greek πριαπισμός (priapismós).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpraɪ.əˌpɪ.zəm/

Noun

priapism (countable and uncountable, plural priapisms)

1. (pathology) A potentially painful or harmful medical condition in which the erect penis (erection) does not return to its flaccid state (despite the absence of both physical and psychological stimulation), often as a result of a spinal injury.
2. (figuratively) Obsessive focus on one's genitals or on the need for genital gratification.
   • 2018 September 26, Ross Douthat, “Brett Kavanaugh and the Limits of Certainty”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     [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.

Derived terms

• priapismic

Related terms

• priapic

Translations

medical condition

• Albanian: priapizëm m
• Armenian: պրիապիզմ (priapizm)
• Bulgarian: приапи́зъм m (priapízǎm)
• Catalan: priapisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陰莖異常勃起／阴茎异常勃起 (yīnjīng yìcháng bóqǐ)

• Czech: priapizmus m
• Danish: priapisme
• Dutch: priapisme (nl)
• Finnish: priapismi (fi), priapismus, kestoerektio
• French: priapisme (fr) m
• German: Priapismus (de) m
• Greek: πριαπισμός (el) m (priapismós)

  Ancient: στῦμα n (stûma)

• Hebrew: פריאפיזם m (priapizm)
• Hindi: प्रायापिज़्म (prāyāpizma)
• Hungarian: priapizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: sístaða, ofstöður
• Indonesian: priapisme
• Irish: biachacht f
• Italian: priapismo (it) m
• Japanese: 持続勃起症 (じぞくぼっきしょう, jizokubokkishō)
• Korean: 지속발기증(持續勃起症) (jisokbalgijeung)
• Lithuanian: priapizmas m
• Maltese: prijapiżmu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: priapisme

• Persian: نغوظ دائم
• Polish: priapizm m, ciągotka f
• Portuguese: priapismo (pt) m
• Romanian: priapism (ro) n
• Russian: приапи́зм (ru) m (priapízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: prijapìzam (sh) m
• Slovene: priapizem m
• Spanish: priapismo (es) m
• Swedish: priapism (sv)
• Thai: ภาวะองคชาตแข็งค้าง
• Vietnamese: chứng cương đau
• Welsh: priapaeth f, llostchwydd m

See also

• erectile dysfunction
• permaboner

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French priapisme.

Noun

priapism n (uncountable)

1. priapism

Declension

declension of priapism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) priapism	priapismul
genitive/dative	(unui) priapism	priapismului
vocative	priapismule