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Prostate gland   /prˈɑstˌeɪt glænd/   Listen
Prostate gland

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: prostate.






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... down to the office and be no more greeted with MacDonald's cheery voice and kindly look. His illness was unexpected and its progress rapid. Within a few days after his return from his holiday in Mull, he was attacked by the complaint which proved fatal—"an enlargement of the prostate gland"—brought on, I have no doubt, by exposure day after day to continual rain, and accompanied by recurrent attacks of fever. To myself personally his loss is irreparable, for I had been intimately associated with him ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman



Words linked to "Prostate gland" :   endocrine gland, prostate, endocrine, ductless gland, male reproductive system



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