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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ED mean? 

• ED (noun)
  The noun ED has 1 sense:

1. impotence resulting from a man's inability to have or maintain an erection of his penis

  Familiarity information: ED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impotence resulting from a man's inability to have or maintain an erection of his penis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ED; erectile dysfunction; male erecticle dysfunction

Hypernyms ("ED" is a kind of...):

impotence; impotency (an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate)

disfunction; dysfunction ((medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group)

 Context examples 

ED becomes more common as you get older.

(Erectile Dysfunction, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

When it occurs in children it is commonly referred to as rickets. (Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, 3rd ed.) —2003

(Osteomalacia, NCI Thesaurus)

It has been listed as a known carcinogen in the Fourth Annual Report on Carcinogens (NTP-85-002, 1985) (Merck, 11th ed).

(Bischloroethylsulfide, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Now, I ain't one of your lady's men, Master Copperfield; but I've had eyes in my ed, a pretty long time back.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The 5- and 10-year survival rates of malignant hemangiopericytomas have been reported to be 40% and 29% respectively (partially adapted from S. Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, 4th ed., 2004).

(Hemangiopericytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A curved elevation of gray matter extending the entire length of the floor of the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle (Dorland, 28th ed).

(Hippocampus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

That portion of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord. (Dorland, 28th ed) (MSH98)

(Murine Central Nervous System, NCI Thesaurus/DCTD-CD)

The overall prognosis of gastric adenocarcinomas is poor, even in patients who receive a "curative" resection (adapted from Sternberg's Surgical Pathology, 3rd ed., 1999).

(Gastric Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A beta-lactamase preferentially cleaving penicillins. (Dorland, 28th ed) EC 3.5.2.-.

(Beta-Lactamase, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Clinical manifestations include fever, headache, alterations of mentation, focal neurologic deficits, and COMA. (From Clin Microbiol Rev 1994 Jan;7(1):89-116; Walton, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System, 10th ed, p321)

(Epidemic Encephalitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)