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Female Prostate Check
Article updated and reviewed by Larry A. Weinrauch, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Editorial review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network on June 1, 2005.
The prostate is one of the male sex glands, located just below the bladder and in front of the rectum. The normal prostate is about the size of a walnut and it surrounds part of the urethra (the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body). The prostate makes fluid that becomes part of the...
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Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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Nipple discharge: abnormal
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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FSH
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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