The term ethnography has come to be equated with virtually any qualitative research project where the intent is to provide a detailed, in-depth description of everyday life and practice.
Glans â This is the Latin word for acorn. Prostate â This is from the Greek expression pro histanai meaning that which stands before. In this case what it stood before were the testes. Seminal vesicle â Two interesting Latin roots appear here.
prostate. [prosâ²tÄt]. Etymology: Gk, prostates, standing before. a gland in men that surrounds the neck of the bladder and the proximal part of the urethra and produces a fluid that becomes part of semen. a gland in men that surrounds the neck of the bladder and the urethra and produces a secretion that liquefies coagulated semen. prostate cancer, n a slowly progressive adenocarcinoma of the prostate gland that affects an increasing proportion of males after the age of 50.