The peak of sexual excitement, characterized by strong feelings of pleasure and by a series of involuntary contractions of the muscles of the genitals, usually accompanied by the ejaculation of semen by the male. Also called climax.
A similar point of intensity of emotional excitement.
intr.v.
or·gasm·ed (-gāz'əmd), or·gasm·ing (-gāz'ə-mĭng), or·gasms (-gāz'əmz) To experience an orgasm.
[French orgasme or New Latin orgasmus, both from Greek orgasmos, from orgān, to swell up, be excited.] or·gas'mic (ôr-gāz'mĭk), or·gas'tic (-tĭk) adj., or·gas'mi·cal·ly, or·gas'ti·cal·ly adv.
(ôr'gāz'əm) 