nocturnal penile tumescence test

nocturnal penile tumescence test
monitoring of erections occurring during sleep; in the differential diagnosis of psychogenic and organic impotence, the former is generally associated with the presence of normal patterns of nocturnal erection while the latter is not. Called also NPT t.

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