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Breast palpation
A breast to see if a lump is present which might indicate breast cancer.
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Breast milk
The milk produced by a woman who has recently had a baby. Milk like fluid secreted by female breasts after childbirth and used as food for newborns, providing all necessary nutrients and some level of immunity against certain diseases. Mother’s milk. Beginning with the colostrum produced the first few days after childbirth, breast milk provides…
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Breast implant
A sac containing silicone, implanted to improve the appearance of a breast. A surgical alteration in the size and/or contour of the breast or chest wall, either using the patient’s own tissue (e.g., pedicle graft) or a prosthesis. Breast augmentation refers to a surgical procedure that involves the placement of an artificial implant within the…
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Breast-fed
Referring to a baby which is fed from the mother’s breasts.
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Breastbone
A bone which is in the centre of the front of the thorax and to which the ribs are connected.
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Breast
One of two glands in a woman which secrete milk. A pair of hemispheric structures on the chest of mature females, composed largely of fatty tissue, surrounding 15 to 20 milk-secreting glands (physiologically modified sweat glands), with milk funneled into the nipple in the middle. Children and men have undeveloped breasts. Under some conditions, as…
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Breakdown product
Substance which is produced when a compound is broken down into its parts.
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Branchial pouch
A pouch on the side of the neck of an embryo.
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Branchial cyst
A cyst on the side of the neck of an embryo. A cyst that arises at the site of one of the embryonic pharyngeal pouches due to a developmental anomaly. A cyst arising in the neck from remnants of the embryological branchial clefts. They are usually fluid-filled and will therefore transilluminate.
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Branchial
Referring to the branchiae. To or resembling gills of a fish or a homologous structure in higher animals. The term originates from the Greek word for gills. In its early development, the human embryo resembles a tadpole, complete with markings that would theoretically develop into gills. Various body parts and organs eventually evolve from these…
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