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What is an arousal?

What is an arousal? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
  2. A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.
  3. Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
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Orgastic dysfunction refers solely to the impairment of the orgastic component of the female sexual response and not arousal in general.
An inspiring call to arousal is repeated no less than five times in this liturgical verse.
She then builds up a secondary inhibition to sexual arousal in order to avoid the frustration accompanying an unsatisfying sexual experience.
Rather, the stimulus itself appeared to elicit a small, brief arousal in the sleeping participant.
Their level of arousal goes up much more quickly, peaks at a higher level, and takes more time to return to baseline.
Baseline sleep states that preceded arousal or subcortical activation were established during 30-sccond time periods.

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