- Antibiotics: Drugs used to fight infection
- Autoinflation: Inadvertent and unwanted inflation of the device
- Biopolymer: A plastic material that is designed to be implanted in the body
- Catheter: Hollow tube used to remove urine from the bladder
- Chronic pain: Pain that continues beyond the normal recovery period
- Corpus cavernosa: Chambers in the penis that fill with blood during an erection
- Cylinder: A part of an inflatable penile implant. They are filled with fluid to give an erection. The cylinders are implanted in the penis
- Erosion: Tissue next to any part of the device that is “worn away.”
- General anesthesia: Puts you to sleep for the surgery
- Glans of the penis: The head of the penis
- Impotence: Unable to get or keep an erection that is firm enough for sexual intercourse
- Local anesthesia: Numbs the surgical area
- Migration: Movement of one or both cylinders, pump, or reservoir within the body, from where they were originally placed
- Pump: A part of an inflatable penile implant. Transfers fluid between the reservoir and the cylinders. The pump is implanted in the scrotum
- Reservoir: A part of an inflatable penile implant. Holds the fluid when the penis is not erect. The reservoir is implanted in the abdomen
- Scrotum: The external pouch of skin and muscle containing the testes
- Swelling: When tissue next to any part of the device is swollen
- Trauma: Injury
- Urinary tract: The system in the human body that stores and gets rid of urine
