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erectile dysfunction (previously referred to as impotent)
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ED
abbr.
1. effective dose
2. election district
3. erectile dysfunction
ed
(ĕd)n. Informal
Education: driver's ed; adult ed.
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ed
(ɛd)n.
education: driver's ed.
[by shortening]
ED
1. Department of Education.
2. effective dose.
3. erectile dysfunction.
-ed1
, a suffix forming the past tense of weak verbs: He crossed the river.
[Old English -de, -ede, -ode, -ade; orig. disputed]
-ed2
, a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting from the action of the verb (inflated balloons).
[Old English -ed, -od, -ad; orig. disputed]
-ed3
, a suffix forming adjectives from nouns, typically specifying that the person or thing modified by the adjective possesses or is characterized by whatever is denoted by the noun base: bearded; diseased; layered. Such adjectives are often derived from adjective-noun or quantifier-noun phrases (black-haired “having black hair”; three-headed “having three heads”) or from more complex constructions (hourglass-shaped “having the shape of an hourglass”).
[Middle English; Old English -ede]
ed.
1. edited.
2.
pl. eds. edition.
pl. eds. edition.
3.
pl. eds. editor.
pl. eds. editor.
4. education.
E.D.
election district.
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| Noun | 1. |  ED - impotence resulting from a man's inability to have or maintain an erection of his penisdisfunction, dysfunction - (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group; "erectile dysfunction"; "sexual relationship dysfunction" |
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abbr emergency department. V. department.ED
abbr erectile dysfunction. V. dysfunction.English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.