What is "arousals"

Usage examples of "arousals".

I could check hourly on your pulse and temperature and… and arousals, not to mention a dozen other variables.

His groans and slow arousals, the myriad involuntary gestures of his used body.

I did not see my life pass before my eyes, but rather saw the sum of my life imprinted upon that unimportant landscape, and understood that in this cunning design with its drear prospect and trivial monster, all the wastage and impotence of my days, all my misused intellect and defrauded ambitions, all my torpid compulsions and arousals, all my puerile dreams and dissipated hopes and contemptible passions had found their proper resolution.