subject: What is erectile dysfunction and how it differs from erectile dysfunction? [print this page] What is erectile dysfunction and how it differs from erectile dysfunction?
Impotence. From this word is blowing some Death anguish, and every man at the thought of it feels a chill between his shoulder blades. And legs.
Indeed, the meaning is known, perhaps, each individual male species Homo Sapiens over 13 years. And although there are a lot more harmonious epithets describing the meaning ("Femininity", "impotence", etc.) are one - the man becomes unavailable function underlying the continuation of the human race.
According to the definition proposed in the Great Medical Encyclopedia - impotence (from Lat. Impotentia - weakness) - lack of penile erection in men, leading to the impossibility of sexual intercourse. More precise and concise definition is difficult to find. It describes an extreme degree of erectile dysfunction - when the sexual act the man, in principle, available. Quite a long time the diagnosis of Impotence "was set to all, without exception, men who complained of reduction in duration and strength of erections of the penis. However, there were (and there) patients who have erectile dysfunction, in principle, remain, but their strength is not enough for full sexual intercourse. In other words these people as not impotent, but not entirely healthy. And inaccurate diagnosis in medicine is known to lead to the disabled care. In addition, during the special sociological studies have shown that people with decreased quality of erections a lot more than people with a complete lack of them. In this regard, a few years ago at the joint European Congress of Andrology, urologists, sexologists and other professionals who treat male genital diseases, has proposed a new term describing erectile dysfunction - Erectile dysfunction ". And today in the scientific literature, the term "impotence" is almost impossible to meet. Increasingly rare, this term appears in the pages of popular science literature.
What is erectile dysfunction is different from impotence? The term "erectile dysfunction" is commonly understood as a pathological condition characterized by deterioration in the quality of erections in men and as a consequence - a lack of capacity for full sexual intercourse (ie, for the introduction of the penis into the vagina and the maintenance of normal strength erection during the time required for the completion of full sexual intercourse). Thus it is clear that impotence is nothing like an extreme form of erectile dysfunction. In other words - the term "erectile dysfunction" is a broader concept than impotence, and it combines all the violations (ie dysfunctions) of erectile ability of the penis in males.
