prostatitis
- n inflammation of the prostate gland characterized by perineal pain and irregular urination and (if severe) chills and fever
- At United Manchester Hospitals he has seen 33 cases of bladder-neck obstruction in women, caused by essentially the same process as prostatitis in men.
- Barney Dreyfuss, 66, vice president of the National Baseball League and owner of the Pittsburgh "Pirates"; of pneumonia following two operations for prostatitis; in Manhattan.
- For this reason, it is also the first useful drug for men, who often pick up the parasites from their wives and may suffer urethritis or prostatitis.