Meanings
adjectivehyperemic (comparative more hyperemic, superlative most hyperemic)
comparative more hyperemic · superlative most hyperemic · alternative hyperaemic
- Pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperemia; congested with blood.
Calvin Thrust is quietly rumored to have on the shaft of his formerly professional porn-cartridge-performer's Unit a tattoo that displays the magiscule initials CT when the Unit is flaccid and the full name CALVIN THRUST when hyperemic.
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 208
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