"gargalesis" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1897, G. Stanley Hall, Arthur Alliń, “The Psychology of Tickling, Laughing, and the Comic”, in The American Journal of Psychology, 9(1) (Oct., 1897), pp. 1-41",
          "text": "Pending a better nomenclature we suggest for the former the term knismesis and for the latter the term gargalesis, with the adjectives knismic and gargalic, hyperknismesis and hyper-gargalesis for excess, etc.",
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          "ref": "1999 Christine R. Harris, \"The Mystery of Ticklish Laughter,\" American Scientist, 87(4) (July-August 1999), p344",
          "text": "Gargalesis, the heavy tickle associated with play and laughter and seemingly with pleasure, may be limited to the primates, but not solely to human beings."
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          "text": "The second type of tickle called gargalesis is evoked by a heavier touch to particular areas of the body such as armpits or ribs. Such kind of stimuli usually results in laugher and squirming."
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