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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Prostate  \Pros"tate\,  a.[Gr.  ?  standing  before  fr  ?  to  set 
  before  ?  before  +  ?  to  set:  cf  F.  prostate.]  (Anat.) 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  prostate 
  adj  :  relating  to  the  prostate  gland  [syn:  {prostatic}] 
  n  :  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  [syn:  {prostate  gland}] 




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