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Definition of Erectile

1. Adjective. Capable of being raised to an upright position. "Erectile feathers"

2. Adjective. Filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood. "The penis is an erectile organ"

Definition of Erectile

1. a. Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.

Definition of Erectile

1. Adjective. Capable of being raised to an upright position. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or relating to tissue capable of filling with blood and becoming rigid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Erectile

1. capable of being raised upright [adj]

Medical Definition of Erectile

1. Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated. Erectile tissue, a tissue which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by the distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains. Origin: Cf. F. Erectile. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erectile

ercitite erd erdheim-chester disease erdite ere erebus erect erect-crested penguin erect-crested penguins erect bugle

erect illumination erectable erected erecter erecters erectile (current term) erectile organ erectile tissue erectilities erectility

erecting erecting prism erections erective erectly erectness erectnesses erecto-patent

Literary usage of Erectile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"T has already described, in his Treatise on Pathological Anatomy (1846, vol. ip 276), under the name of cavernous tumours, erectile tumours as products of ..."

2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"erectile Tissue. The walls of the urethra consist of a mucous membrane lined from the prostate Onwards to near the mouth with a stratified columnar ..."

3. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"erectile Tissue. The walls of the urethra consist of a mucous membrane lined from the prostate onwards to near the mouth with a stratified columnar ..."

4. Anatomy, descriptive and surgical by Henry Gray (1867)
"It is eight or nine lines in length, and a line and a half in height, and contains, according to Kobelt, muscular and erectile tissues. ..."

5. Lectures on surgical pathology: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons by James Paget, William Turner, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1865)
"erectile OR VASCULAR TUMORS. THE erectile OR VASCULAR TUMORS include most of the diseases which are described as vascular naevi, and of which the types are ..."

6. The Practice of surgery by James Miller (1857)
"erectile Tumor of the Tongue. The erectile tumor may form in this organ. A few examples are on record. If the diseased structure be g- 104- limited and ..."

7. Clinical Lectures on Surgery by Auguste Nélaton, Walter Franklin Atlee (1855)
"erectile Tumor. The expression erectile tumor is inexact, inasmuch as it would lead to belief in the accidental production of a tissue anatomically ..."

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