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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The prostate gland.
  2. adj. Of or relating to the prostate gland.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Standing before or in front of something; prostatic: specifically noting the gland known as the prostate.
  2. n. The prostate gland; a large glandular body which embraces the urethra immediately in front of the mouth of the bladder, whence the name. In man the prostate is of the size and shape of a horse-chestnut, surrounding the first section of the course of the urethra. It is a pale firm body, placed in the pelvis behind and below the symphysis of the pubis, posterior to the deep perineal fascia, and resting upon the rectum, through the walls of which it may easily be felt, especially when enlarged. It is held in place by the puboprostatic ligaments, by the posterior layer of deep perineal fascia, and by a part of the levator ani muscle called on this account levator prostatæ. It measures about 1½ inches in greatest width, 1¼ inches in length, and 1 inch in depth, and weighs about 6 drams. It is partially divided into a median and two lateral lobes. The prostate is inclosed in a firm fibrous capsule, and consists of both muscular and glandular tissue. The latter is composed of numerous racemose follicles whose ducts unite to form from 12 to 20 large excretory ducts, which pour their secretion into the prostatic part of the urethra.
  3. n. In platyhelminths and earthworms, a glandular body connected with the sperm-duct.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. alternative spelling of pro-state.
  2. n. The prostate gland.
  3. adj. Of or relating to the prostate gland.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Anat.) 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. relating to the prostate gland
  2. n. 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

Etymologies

  1. From pro- +‎ state (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin prostata, from Greek prostatēs (adēn), prostate (gland), from proïstanai, to set before : pro-, in front; see pro-2 + histanai, to set, place; see stā- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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