See Also: Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)(health)
Benign prostatic hyperplasia(health)
benign prostatic hyperplasia(medicine)
Benign prostatic hypertrophy(health)
Benign prostatic hypertrophy(medicine)
Maxwell, William(encyclopedia)
Evarts, William Maxwell(encyclopedia)
Prince William Health System(health)
Maxwell(dictionary)
Maxwell, (Ian) Robert(encyclopedia)

Benign prostatic hypertrophy (health) and Maxwell, William (sh)


Benign prostatic hypertrophy (health)


Enlargement or overgrowth of the prostate gland as a result of an increase in the number of its constituent cells.





Maxwell, William (sh)




born Aug. 16, 1908, Lincoln, Ill., U.S.
died July 31, 2000, New York, N.Y.

American editor and author.

Maxwell taught English at the University of Illinois before joining the staff of The New Yorker magazine. In his 40 years there, he edited writers such as John Cheever, J.D. Salinger, Eudora Welty, and Mavis Gallant. He himself was the author of spare, evocative short stories and novels. Perhaps his best-known work is The Folded Leaf (1945), about the friendship of two small-town boys. Among his Other works are the novels The Chateau (1961) and So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980) and the short-story collection All the Days and Nights (1995).