Obs. [L. tentīgo tenseness, lust.] An attack of priapism, an erection; lecherousness, lust.
a. 1603. in Nichols, Progr. Q. Eliz. (1823), III. 336. If any be trobled with the tentigo.
1717. D. Turner, Siphylis, 26. The Female Sex … are freed from many of the Symptoms incident to Men; such I mean, as the Chordee, Tentigo, Humoral Hernia, Phimosis, Paraphimosis, and Carunculæ.
1827. D. Johnson, Ind. Field Sports, 223. Tentigo also attends.
1860. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Tentigo,… old term for Priapism.
