erectile dysfunction

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erectile dysfunction (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, pathology) The inability of a male to achieve or sustain an erection.
    Synonyms: (abbreviation) ED, impotence; see also Thesaurus:erectile dysfunction
    Antonym: priapism
    • 1998, Alvaro Morales, editor, Erectile Dysfunction: Issues in Current Pharmacotherapy, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 107:
      The observation that topical application of nitroglycerin to the penis may lead to erection adequate for sexual intercourse (Talley and Crawley 1985) has stimulated several investigations on the efficacy of this potential mode of treatment of erectile dysfunction.

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