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breasts

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b??sts/
  • Rhymes: -?sts

Noun

breasts

  1. plural of breast

Verb

breasts

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of breast

Synonyms

  • see Thesaurus:breasts

Anagrams

  • Basters, Be stars, Sterbas, basters, bestars, brasset

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gynaecomasty

English

Alternative forms

  • gynæcomasty (obsolete)
  • gynecomasty

Etymology

From gynaeco- +? Ancient Greek ?????? (mastós, breast).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?a?n?k??mæsti/

Noun

gynaecomasty (uncountable)

  1. (physiology) The condition of a man developing breasts of a size and functionality of a woman's.
    • 1939: The authors report the case of a 40-year-old man with a predominantly left gynaecomasty who was found to be excreting a consistently high level of œstrogen — Annales d'Endocrinologie, Doin 1939, p. 287
    • 1995: Apart from the skin lesions there were no abnormalities other than bilateral gynaecomasty for which no cause was detected. — Tropical and Geographical Medicine, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen 1995, p. 92

Related terms

  • gynecomastia
  • gynaecomastia

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