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  • noun Plural form of prostate.

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Examples

  • (link) Alas, this being the US, all a kid has to do to hear about prostates is watch the pharmaceutical commercials for any sporting event.

    ccfinlay: Overheard in my Car ccfinlay 2007

  • "prostates," as the big 100,000, 500,000 and one million new zaire notes are called.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • WASHINGTON—A class of drugs used to treat enlarged prostates in men may increase the risk of being diagnosed with a more serious form of prostate cancer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.

    FDA Cites Cancer Risk of Some Prostate Drugs Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011

  • Facial hair is the one thing men have that women don't (other than penises, prostates, testicles, chest hair, and an appreciation for Maxim Magazine).

    Mike Gellman: Hair of the Mug Mike Gellman 2010

  • Charles Huggins, a professor of surgery at the University of Chicago School of Medicine, was collecting fluid from the prostates of dogs in whom malignant prostate tumors had spontaneously arisen.

    A Q&A with Morton A Meyers about Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs 2010

  • AMS makes a range of products for issues such as male and female incontinence, and a laser system for treating enlarged prostates and erectile dysfunction.

    Endo Diversifies in Urology Deal Jon Kamp 2011

  • So can some commonly prescribed medications for high blood pressure, heart disease, stomach acid, gout, inflammatory bowel disease, enlarged prostates and baldness.

    Surprising Causes of Male Infertility Melinda Beck 2011

  • Since then, a number of his friends have fought the cancer, and two of them had their prostates removed before 45.

    Mustaches for Cash Shelly Banjo 2010

  • Facial hair is the one thing men have that women don't (other than penises, prostates, testicles, chest hair, and an appreciation for Maxim Magazine).

    Mike Gellman: Hair of the Mug Mike Gellman 2010

  • Maybe during those fights we only 3% cared because we both knew we were 97% elsewhere, knowing we'd both eventually end up with guys: we'd suck their dicks, we'd have their kids, we'd deal with their raging prostates and erectile dysfunction, and we'd share their deathbeds and subsequently cemetery plots.

    Percentages Lavinia Ludlow 2011

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