Erectile describes structures that stand up straight; think towers, flags, or monuments.

Physical Structures

Used in engineering or architecture to describe vertical construction elements or mechanisms.

Engineering Context

Although often used in a sexual context, 'erectile' can simply mean able to stand up.

Not Always Sexual

Erectile in medicine usually relates to the penis or clitoris becoming firm when filled with blood.

Medical Usage

While 'erectile' is used medically, remember it's not appropriate for all enlargement descriptions.

Common Misunderstanding

Be aware that using 'erectile' in non-medical talk may lead to misunderstandings or embarrassment.

Restricted Context

 when it was introduced a few years ago? Viagra, right? Why? Because a lot of guys need it. It's not like you say, "Joe, I'm having erectile dysfunction. How about you?" And yet, look at the number of prescriptions that are being sold. It's not so much psychological, it's vascular, and nicotine makes your arteries constrict.

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 throughout the rest of the week? The question I get asked most often is actually the question underneath pretty much all the other questions, so, can you get addicted to your vibrator, please help me with my erectile dysfunction? Underneath every question is actually the question, "Am I normal?"

The truth about unwanted...

 is caused by smoking. And it’s not just lung cancer. Smoking can cause cancer in multiple tissues and organs, as well as damaged eyesight and weakened bones. It makes it harder for women to get pregnant. And in men, it can cause erectile dysfunction. But for those who quit smoking,

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 We don’t know nearly enough about the vaginal microbiome. This is probably because of stigma and underfunding when it comes to topics that traditionally fall under the umbrella of “women’s health.” For instance, while erectile dysfunction affects a much smaller percentage

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 That's right, 49 surgeries are done for every one person who's helped. And the side effects in that case occur in 50 percent of the patients. They include impotence, erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, rectal tearing, fecal incontinence.

How to stay calm when...

 after prostate cancer surgery may have urinary incontinence and erectile disfunction. That's a lot of people to have a lot of problems -- and this is even in so-called nerve-sparing surgery, which means that the surgeon is aware of the problem,

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 it has a lot of the hallmarks of a hydrostatic skeleton. It has a central space of spongy erectile tissue that fills with fluid -- in this case blood -- surrounded by a wall of tissue that's rich in a stiff structural protein called collagen.

What we didn't know...

 and ranging in subject from astronomy to geography, history to medicine, including one book which records perhaps the first treatment for male erectile dysfunction. Unknown in the West, this was the collected wisdom of an entire continent,

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 but far fewer about breast milk and lactation. When we zoom in on the number of articles just investigating breast milk, we see that we know much more about coffee, wine and tomatoes. We know over twice as much about erectile dysfunction.

What we don't know about...

 protein needs she has she will get all her protein and those three tablespoons of Moringa we we were hearing all this news from women but we were also hearing news from men they were looking for Moringa and it turns out that erectile