benign prostatic hyperplasia

1. 1.

   enlarged prostate; appears to be part of the natural aging process

   SynonymsBPH

   Broaderhyperplasia

Questions about benign prostatic hyperplasia

What does benign prostatic hyperplasia mean?

benign prostatic hyperplasia means "enlarged prostate; appears to be part of the natural aging process".

What is another word for benign prostatic hyperplasia?

Close synonyms include BPH. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is benign prostatic hyperplasia a common word?

benign prostatic hyperplasia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.