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erection

[ih-rek-shuhn] / ɪˈrɛk ʃən /










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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 rest of the neighborhood was equally supportive, many enthusiastically underwriting restoration of the columns and erection of the colonnade.

From Seattle Times Mar. 16, 2023

The erection of the Charlevoix church had been an event of great excitement.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

In the men who were potent before treatment, 52 percent reported problems with erections two years after treatment.

From Seattle Times Sep. 20, 2011

The clocher or belfry of St. Front is accredited as being one of the most remarkable eleventh-century erections of its kind in any land.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield




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