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前立腺肥大症

Benign prostatic hypertrophy

加齢(aging)に伴い前立腺(prostate)が大きくなることで、排尿(urination)がしにくくなる疾患のこと。 頻尿(polyuria)、残尿感(residual urine feeling)がみられる。

This is a disease in which it becomes hard to urinate because of the prostate getting bigger with aging. Frequent urination (polyuria), and/or a feeling that the bladder hasn’t been emptied properly (residual urine feeling) can be seen.