Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Prostate
Pros′tate (prŏs′tāt), a.[Gr. προστάτης standing before, fr. προϊστάναι to set before; πρό before + ἱστάναι to set: cf. F. prostate.] (Anat.) Standing before; — applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra. — n. The prostate gland.