Inability to achieve or maintain a sufficiently strong erection to allow sexual intercourse.
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Incontinence
Inability to refrain from urinating or defecating.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Magnetic field-based painless medical imaging technique.
Seminal fluid
Liquid comprising secretions from the seminal vesicles and the prostate. It combines with sperm to form semen.
Metastasis
Tumor formation caused when cancerous cells from an initial tumor migrate towards other parts of the body.
Erector nerve
These nerves, situated along the perimeter of the prostate, initiate penile erections.
Non-invasive
Describes medical procedures that do not require an incision to be made in the skin.
Radical prostatectomy
Surgical procedure that completely removes the prostate.