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Definition of Prostate gland

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 gland

1. Noun. (anatomy) A gland in male mammals surrounding the urethra just below the urinary bladder that controls the release of urine from the bladder and produces a secretion that is the fluid part of semen. ¹

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Literary usage of Prostate gland

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

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The prostate gland is perforated by the urethra and the ejaculatory ducts. The urethra usually lies along the junction of its anterior with its middle third ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1862)
"Comprising the second edition of "The Enlarged Prostate," and a dissertation "On the Healthy and Morbid Anatomy of the prostate gland" to which the ..."

3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Leav and Ling (17) reported the similar findings on tissues derived from neoplastic canine prostate gland. Since the discovery that the ..."

4. The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie (1812)
"Abscess in the prostate gland. 1 HE prostate gland is not often found in a ... The prostate gland is sometimes scrofulous. I have seen, in cutting into it ..."

5. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"Sometimes pale concentric formations are found in the male urine, which are so-called colloid or amyloid corpuscles of the prostate gland (prostatic ..."

6. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1905)
"WRD A Non-Surgical Treatise on Diseases of the prostate gland and A By GEORGE WHITFIELD OVERALL. (Chicago, 1903: Marsh and Grant Company. ..."

7. A Treatise on the venereal disease by John Hunter, Ph. Ricord, Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1853)
"OF THE SWELLED prostate gland. ANOTHER disease of the parts surrounding the urethra, which is often very formidable, is a swelling of the prostate gland. ..."

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