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Definition of Prostate

1. Noun. A firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen.

Definition of Prostate

1. a. Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra.

Definition of Prostate

1. Noun. The prostate gland. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the prostate gland. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prostate

1. a gland in male mammals [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prostate

Literary usage of Prostate

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.) (1911)
"Carcinoma of the prostate is more frequent than is generally supposed. ... Carcinoma can begin by a small nodule in a prostate otherwise healthy, ..."

2. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"The prostate Gland is a pale, firm, glandular body which is placed ... Behind the prostate is the posterior surface of the neck and base of the bladder, ..."

3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"The fluid secreted by the prostate, which mixes with sperm during emission. ... Inflammation of the prostate; when Accompanying gonorrhoea, ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"June 5, 60 millicuries of radium in the right and left lobes of the prostate, each 6 hours. October 27, up once at night, and more radium to the right and ..."

5. The Science and Art of Surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries by John Eric Erichsen (1873)
"OTHER DISEASES OF THE prostate. Atrophy of the prostate sometimes occurs. ... Malignant Disease of the prostate is of rare occurrence ; and, when it occurs, ..."

6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The prostate (Prostata; prostate Gland). The prostate is a firm, partly glandular and partly muscular body, which is placed immediately below the internal ..."

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