turgidus

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Further, what is life itself but, as it is commonly called, the breath of our nostrils, whence it is very justly observed by naturalists that wind still continues of great emolument in certain mysteries not to be named, giving occasion for those happy epithets of turgidus and inflatus, applied either to the emittent or recipient organs.

A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706
[Latin turgidus, from turgre, to be swollen.] 15 posted on 09 / 15 / 2008 1: 30: 48 PM PDT

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