(a.) 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.
(n.) The prostate gland.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
(2) 11 patients with a postoperative classification of stage D had additional external beam radiation to the pelvic and paraaortic lymph nodes with shielding of the implanted prostatic region.
(3) However, in benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) cases, a high false positive rate of 41% was observed in Americans.
(4) In a final experiment, prostatic atrophy in castrate rats was not enhanced by either adrenalectomy or flutamide treatment.
(5) Newer modalities, such as TRUS and PSA, can identify patients with nonpalpable prostate cancer, but the use of these tests will also result in many false-positives.
(6) Cytochrome P-450 was partially purified from microsomes of whole brain, hypothalamus, and prostate and 3 beta-diol OHase activity reconstituted.
(7) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
(8) Thirty six fresh surgical specimens were collected from patients undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomy for carcinoma of the prostate.
(9) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
(10) Conversely, in 18 out of 21 hyperplastic prostates, 5 alpha-reductase activity was higher than 3 alpha (beta)-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity.
(11) The translation of mRNA for S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase was studied using a polyamine-depleted reticulocyte lysate supplemented with mRNA from rat prostate and the antiserum to precipitate the proteins corresponding to S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase.
(12) 5 alpha-Reductase is necessary for the metabolism of testosterone (T) to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and is found in high levels only in certain tissues such as the prostate.
(13) Thus, prostate tissues of mice can be a potential source of horizontally transmitted mammary tumor virus in mice of at least some high mammary cancer strains.
(14) Management in pregnant females or in males with indwelling catheters or before prostatic surgery presents special problems.
(15) SCH 13521 definitely interfered with the localization of the radioactivity of these steroids in the prostate and indicated a competitive situation between SCH 13521 and the steroids.
(16) Estramustine phosphate may be given safely for a prolonged period and has a place in the treatment of advanced prostatic cancer refractory to hormonal therapy.
(17) Computed tomography gave excellent visualization of prostate morphology and pelvic anatomic relationships.
(18) The aim of the present investigation was to establish whether in advanced prostatic carcinoma in relapse treated with LHRH analogues combined with cyproterone acetate (CPA), substitution of this antiandrogen with another compound such as flutamide (FLU) might lead to further subjective and objective improvement.
(19) Medium from other cultured human cells (prostate fibroblasts, genitourinary tumor and non-tumor cells), as well as control medium, contained less than 1 ng.
(20) A multicenter randomized clinical trial was carried out between May, 1986 and May, 1987 involving 82 patients with stage B-D prostatic carcinoma from 29 centers.
Prostrate
Definition:
(a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
(a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
(a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
(a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
(v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
(v. t.) to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
(v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
(v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
(2) The clinical course was characterized by severe prostration, persistently high spiking fever, and continuous development of enlarged lymph nodes.
(3) This rare esophageal rupture should be suspected in any chest injury patients, especially those characterized by extreme cyanosis, dyspnea, shock, and prostration incompatible with thoracic cage injury.
(4) In 352 patients affected with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL) the authors simultaneously detected a solid second tumour 22 times (= 6.22%) (6 cancers of the prostrate, 5 cancers of the skin, 4 cancers of the uterus, 2 cancers of the stomach, 2 cancers of the lung, one case of rectal and mamma cancer each and one case of eye sarcoma).
(5) The cranial tumor disappeared after irradiation but he died of metastases and general prostration.
(6) Severe hypotension, fluid retention, watery diarrhea, and central nervous deficits culminated in a profound prostration as the dose-limiting toxicity.
(7) The specificity, sedimentation coefficient on sucrose gradient, and sensitivity to sulfhydryl reagents and heat of this dihydrotestosterone-binding protein are typical of the cytoplasmic androgen receptor from other androgen target tissues such as prostrate.
(8) Complications were intractable fever, obstruction of the cannula, and prostration, resulting in interruption and discontinuity of this strategy within 11 weeks (in all cases).
(9) Scotland regained the lead after 53 minutes when they played on as a Malta player lay prostrate near the halfway line following a challenge by Hanley and Martin converted a low cross from eight yards.
(10) At variance in all controls, gastrointestinal symptoms were long lasting and associated with major prostration due to electrolyte and fluid loss.
(11) Though farmers comprise just 0.3% of the population of England and 1.4% of the rural population , ministers treat them and their lobbyists as an idol before which they must prostrate themselves.
(12) Administration of .2 ml of LHAS resulted in a significant reduction in the weights of the dorsolateral prostrate, coagulating glands, seminal vesicles, and Cowpers glands compared with intact controls (p. less than .05), and the weights were comparable with those in castrate controls.
(13) I have lots of friends in the Jewish community, and, yes, I can prostrate myself no further, it's just a stupid thing to say, and I didn't even … I accept I said it, and I am conscious that my speech isn't always as balanced as it should be."
(14) Five patients over the age of 55 years showed slight enlargement of the prostrate.
(15) A thousand came to his fringe event, prostrated themselves – a "hot" Tory in the era of austerity!
(16) By contrast, toxic doses of l-homoarginine, l-lysine, l-leucine and ammonium acetate caused dyspnoea, extreme prostration, and in some cases coma in 15-30min., and increased the concentration of ammonia of blood significantly and the concentration of glutamine of brain slightly.
(17) Difficult though it may be, we must prostrate ourselves in the face of public sentiment and continue to do so until there is genuine belief that we regret what has happened and the part we played in it".
(18) But as Theresa May prostrates Britain before her head-chopping friends in Saudi Arabia, her strategy is clear.
(19) Calves fed sporocysts of Sarcocystis isolated from the feces of dogs and coyotes became anorectic, lost weight, and became anemic and prostrate, and died.
(20) The disease was characterised by fever, ataxia, posterior paresis, circling and hyperaesthesia progressing to prostration.