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amastia en · NOUN

Etymology

From a- (“without”) + -mastia (“breast”).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The absence of breast tissue, nipple, and areola.
    • Amastia in girls can be treated with augmentation mammoplasty.
    • No case of amastia has yet been recorded in the male (and in females it is much rarer than polymastia). 1878 April 6, “Reviews and notices of books: On Numerical Anomalies of the Breast”, in The Lancet, volume 114, page 500:

Translations (3)

pl amastia (absence of breast tissue, nipple, and areola) · id amastia (absence of breast tissue, nipple, and areola) · pt amastia (absence of breast tissue, nipple, and areola)