erectile dysfunction

noun

: chronic inability to achieve or maintain an erection satisfactory for sexual intercourse : impotence

Examples of erectile dysfunction in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Besides the pain, discomfort and fatigue from the surgery and general anesthesia, you are typically left with urinary leakage and incontinence and erectile dysfunction for at least a while. —Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025

The film treats El Hadji’s erectile dysfunction, and his bumbling quest to resolve it, as a metaphor for post-independence leaders with shallow commitments to liberatory politics. —Lovia Gyarkye, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2025

During Season 3, Harry had been experiencing penile symptoms such as erectile dysfunction and incontinence, which prompted him to go to the doctor, who diagnosed him with prostate cancer. —Scarlett Harris, Time, 13 Aug. 2025

For example, companies are selling personalized compounded drugs that combine weight loss and erectile dysfunction treatments, but is this safe? —Hank Naughton, Boston Herald, 22 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for erectile dysfunction

• adjunction
• compunction
• conjunction
• disjunction
• injunction
• inunction
• malfunction
• eigenfunction
• multifunction
• function
• junction
• unction

Medical Definition

erectile dysfunction

noun

: chronic inability to achieve or maintain an erection satisfactory for sexual intercourse : impotence sense 2

—abbreviation ED