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Definition: Erectile |
ErectileAdjective1. Capable of being raised to an upright position; "erectile feathers". 2. (physiology) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood; "erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The inability to get or maintain an erection for satisfactory sexual intercourse. Also called impotence. (references) |
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Synonym: ErectileSynonym: cavernous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Erectile |
| English words defined with "erectile": anit-impotence drug ♦ Cacatua galerita, cavernous, Cavernous body, cock of the rock ♦ erectile organ, Erectility ♦ frilled lizard ♦ glans clitoridis, glans penis ♦ hedgehog ♦ Kakatoe galerita ♦ phentolamine, Philomachus pugnax, porcupine ♦ ruff, Rupicola rupicola ♦ Shore lark, sildenafil, Solenoglypha, spiny puffer, sulphur-crested cockatoo, Superb paradise bird ♦ triggerfish ♦ Vasomax, Venomous snake, Viagra, virility drug. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "erectile": guided experience ♦ Impotence, Vasculogenic ♦ Penile Erection. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Also called erectile dysfunction. (references) | |
Studies of strategies to prevent male erectile dysfunction. (references) | ||
Little is known about the natural history of erectile dysfunction. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Erectile" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Erectile" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "erectile": erectile dysfunction ♦ erectile organ ♦ Erectile tissue. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "erectile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që mund të ngrerë. (various references) | |
Arabic | إنتصابي. (various references) | |
Chinese | 可直立. (various references) | |
Czech | vztyèitelný. (various references) | |
Danish | erektilt carcinom (erectile carcinoma, telangiectaticum carcinoma), erektil impotens (astysia, erectile impotency), telangiektasisk carcinom (erectile carcinoma, telangiectaticum carcinoma), astysi (astysia, erectile impotency). (various references) | |
Dutch | erectile carcinoma (erectile carcinoma, telangiectaticum carcinoma), carcinoma telangiectodes (erectile carcinoma, telangiectaticum carcinoma), carcinoma telangiectaticum (erectile carcinoma, telangiectaticum carcinoma), astysia (astysia, erectile impotency). (various references) | |
French | érectile. (various references) | |
German | aufrichtbar. (various references) | |
Greek | στυτική ανικανότητα (astysia, erectile impotency), εγκεφαλοειδής καρκίνος που περιέχει πολλά αιμοφόρα αγγεία (erectile carcinoma, telangiectaticum carcinoma), αστυσία (astysia, erectile impotency), τελαγγειεκτασικό καρκίνωμα (erectile carcinoma, telangiectaticum carcinoma). (various references) | |
Hungarian | merevedésre képes. (various references) | |
Italian | erettile. (various references) | |
Korean | 발기성. (various references) | |
Manx | shassagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erectileay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | erétil. (various references) | |
Russian | способный выпрямляться. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji može da se podigne. (various references) | |
Spanish | eréctil. (various references) | |
Swedish | telangiosarkom (erectile carcinoma, telangiectaticum carcinoma). (various references) | |
Turkish | ereksiyona ulaşabilir, dikilebilir, dik durabilir. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | здатний випрямлятися. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: reelect, reticle, tiercel. | |
-2 letters: ceiler, cerite, eelier, recite, relict, retile, tercel, tierce. | |
-3 letters: citer, creel, eerie, elect, elite, erect, liter, litre, recti, relet, relic, relit, retie, telic, terce, tiler, trice. | |
-4 letters: ceil, celt, cere, cete, cire, cite, clit, etic, leer, leet, lice, lier, lire, lite, reel, rete, rice, riel, rile, rite, teel, tele, tier. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-l-r-t" | |
+2 letters: ceilometer, celerities, centerline, percentile, reelecting, reelection, reflective, telemetric. | |
+3 letters: bleacherite, ceilometers, celebrities, centerlines, electioneer, electrified, electrifies, electuaries, heteroclite, percentiles, perceptible, perfectible, preelecting, preelection, preelectric, receptively, reelections, secretively, velocimeter. | |
+4 letters: accelerative, bleacherites, cantilevered, chesterfield, clerestories, credentialed, decelerating, deceleration, decentralize, electioneers, electrogenic, electrophile, encirclement, enterocoelic, erectilities, helicoptered, heteroclites, microelement, perceptively, perfectively, preelections, preselecting, preselection, reflectively, reflectorize, respectively, unreflective, velocimeters. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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