Synonyms for prostate
ˈprɒs teɪt; prɒˈstæt ɪkprostate

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1. prostate gland, prostateadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   prostate gland

2. prostate, prostaticadjective

   relating to the prostate gland

   Synonyms:
   prostatic

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1. List of paraphrases for "prostate":

   prostatic, prostrate

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1. Karen Knudsen:

   Black men unfortunately have a 70% increase in incidence of prostate cancer compared to White men and a two- to four-fold increase in prostate cancer mortality as related to any other ethnic and racial group in the United States.

2. Riccardo Ricciardi Jr.:

   The prostate is a gland that surrounds the urethra, and as men get older, the gland gets enlarged, and it squeezes on that tube so it restricts the flow of urine out of the bladder.

3. John Bowler:

   The utility of the PARP inhibitors could be much broader than just patients that have a tumor with the BRCA mutation, that becomes relevant when you start thinking about the drugs' role in other tumor types like prostate cancer and breast cancer where the incidence of new patients each year is much greater than in ovarian cancer.

4. Riccardo Ricciardi Jr.:

   The way it works is small titanium implants are placed in the prostate to hold the obstructing tissue away from the urethra to relieve the obstruction.

5. Daniel Appelbaum:

   We have a bunch of new radiotherapies that have just arrived and several more that are on the near horizon for some very common cancers, including prostate cancer.