Do women have prostates?

[1976_Child]

Do girls have prostates? And more to the point what is a prostate? Is it like an appendix or does it actually do anything useful?

 

Was scratching my ring and started thinking about them. I know it is up there somewhere and that sometime it gets cancerous but I have no idea what it is let alone if girls have them.

 

Also, what the fek is 'spleen'. Heard it mentioned on Holby City and it sounded nasty. Is it infectious?

[SuperMikey]

No, the prostate is a male-only thing. It's something to do with producing semen.

[Saint in Paradise]

Ref "spleen" everyone who has one of these will die in due course. However if it has been

removed by surgery you will also die in time.

[Ohio Saint]

My doctor showed me his finger and said "Look, I have small fingers" This was AFTER I yelped like a raped puppy.

[Faz]

Do girls have prostates? And more to the point what is a prostate? Is it like an appendix or does it actually do anything useful?

 

Was scratching my ring and started thinking about them. I know it is up there somewhere and that sometime it gets cancerous but I have no idea what it is let alone if girls have them.

 

Also, what the fek is 'spleen'. Heard it mentioned on Holby City and it sounded nasty. Is it infectious?

 

This is why God invented Google

[bridge too far]

The spleen is necessary to fight off infection. When people have a splenectomy, they can't fight off infection so well. Some diseases, such as leukaemia, cause the spleen to enlarge. This is because people with leukaemia have an increased white cell count.