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prostatism Med.|ˈprɒsteɪtɪz(ə)m|
[ad. F. prostatisme, f. prostat-e prostate + -isme -ism.]
Any condition due to disease of the prostate gland, esp. difficulty in urination.
1900Dorland Med. Dict. 540/1 Prostatism, a morbid state of mind and body due to prostatic disease. 1904Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. CL. 451/2 The frequent, painful, feeble and usually incomplete emptying of the bladder seen in elderly men, which we term prostatic obstruction or prostatism, is not dependent on any single lesion of the prostate. 1920Ibid. CLXXXII. 79/1 Prostatism is the best word I know to express that condition which results from obstruction to urination at the bladder neck due to adenomatous or sclerotic changes in the glands of the prostate itself, or of the posterior urethra. 1956V. F. Marshall Textbk. Urol. iv. 61 An abnormally small prostate can cause prostatism, usually by fibrosis. 1977Jrnl. Urol. CXVII. 70/1 Most patients have symptoms commonly referred to as prostatism, which include hesitancy, deterioration in the urinary stream, postmicturition dribble, urgency, frequency and nocturia. |