erection
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Testing healthy men for prostate cancer does save lives, but also leads to treatment that can leave men unable to control their bladder or have an erection.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Dr. Sarah Furness, the Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland, commissioned the statue's erection after the queen's death.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024
The erection of several wind turbines is viewed by the Golan villagers as an encroachment.
From Reuters ● Jun. 21, 2023
“The erection of the barricades in the roads is an unlawful and unacceptable act that will not be tolerated,” Kurti said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
Three weeks later, Groves ordered the erection of a 2,100-column thermal diffusion plant at Oak Ridge.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
A few decades earlier, Chicago homebuilders began using a technique called “balloon-frame construction,” replacing cumbersome erections of beams and joists with rapidly built skeletons of precut lumber and nails.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2018
On the plus side, some men report improved erections when their high cholesterol was treated with statins, said Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of the department of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2015
For instance, some men become impotent after surgery for prostate or rectal cancer because the nerves that regulate erections, which run through the rectum and prostate into the centre of the penis, can get damaged.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2014
That is convincing evidence that the birds' erections are controlled by the lymph system, the researchers say.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2011
Nearly swallowed by the flood of modern erections as it was, the old house still preserved its sequestered charm.
From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony
