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What does RP stand for?

Refractory Period


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Hawthorn strengthens the force of the heart muscle's contraction and lengthens the refractory period.
Proponents of herbal sex pills have reported experiencing solid and rock hard turgidity of erections, immediate increase on penis size and girth, prolonged orgasmic experience and reduction in refractory period.
The unnecessarily wide pulse is inefficient, delivering most of its energy during the refractory period after depolarization.
The company is manufacturing a rather small (47g) conventional demand (VVI) pacer that can be programmed for rate, refractory period and modality (VOO) .
For a while, mainly depending on his age and health, he won't be able to achieve another erection for some time - the so-called refractory period - and therefore his interest in sex lessens.
Serf-reflexiveness provides insight into the unresponsive refractory period experienced by individuals going through pain, a cushion that insulates previous pain from present pain, as in Diekenson's Pain has an Element of Blank: Pain--has an Element of Blank-- It cannot recollect When it begun--or if there were A time when it was not-- It has no future--but itself-- Its Infinite realms contain Its Past--enlightened to perceive New Periods--of Pain-- (Dickinson,p.
Greco has an almost anthropological fascination with the workings of his fellow man, both in and out of the sack, and there's enough going on in this book to keep the brain engaged during all those refractory periods.
The refractory period, the period following orgasm during which the person cannot be sexually aroused, lengthens.

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