erectile dysfunction

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Noun

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.

Translations

erectile dysfunction

• Afrikaans: erektiele disfunksie
• Armenian: իմպոտենցիա (hy) (impotencʻia), էրեկտիլ դիսֆունկցիա (ērektil disfunkcʻia)
• Catalan: disfunció erèctil f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陽痿 / 阳痿 (zh) (yángwěi), 勃起功能障礙 / 勃起功能障碍 (bóqǐ gōngnéng zhàng'ài), 勃起障礙 / 勃起障碍 (bóqǐ zhàng'ài)

• Czech: erektilní dysfunkce
• Dutch: erectiestoornis (nl)
• Finnish: erektiohäiriö (fi)
• French: dysfonction érectile f, trouble de l'érection m, dysérection (fr) f
• Georgian: იმპოტენცია (imṗoṭencia)
• German: erektile Dysfunktion f
• Greek: στυτική δυσλειτουργία (el) (stytikí dysleitourgía)
• Hungarian: merevedési zavar (hu)
• Indonesian: disfungsi ereksi, impotensi (id), mati pucuk (id)
• Italian: disfunzione erettile f
• Japanese: 勃起不全 (ja) (ぼっきふぜん, bokki fuzen)
• Korean: 발기부전 (ko) (balgibujeon)
• Latin: impotentia erecti f
• Lithuanian: erekcijos disfunkcija f
• Norwegian: erektil dysfunksjon
• Polish: zaburzenie erekcji n
• Portuguese: disfunção erétil f
• Romanian: disfuncție erectilă
• Russian: эректи́льная дисфу́нкция (ru) f (erɛktílʹnaja disfúnkcija)
• Serbo-Croatian: erektivna disfunkcija f, ерективна дисфункција f
• Slovene: erektilna disfunkcija f
• Spanish: disfunción eréctil f
• Swedish: erektil dysfunktion c, vinballe (sv) c (colloquial, due to alcohol)
• Thai: ภาวะหย่อนสมรรถภาพทางเพศ
• Turkish: sertleşme bozukluğu
• Ukrainian: еректи́льна дисфу́нкція f (erektýlʹna dysfúnkcija)
• Vietnamese: liệt dương (vi)