mazoplasian.
/ˌmeɪzə(ʊ)ˈpleɪzɪə/, /ˌmeɪzə(ʊ)ˈpleɪʒə/, U.S. /ˌmeɪzoʊˈpleɪʒ(i)ə/, /ˌmeɪzoʊˈpleɪziə/ Medicine. Now rare.
A condition characterized by benign proliferation of fibrous and (often) epithelial tissue of the breast; fibrocystic disease of the breast.
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1931 G. L. Cheatle & M. Cutler Tumours of Breast vi. 77 Mazoplasia is that condition in which there is a certain type of desquamation of epithelial cells in the terminal ducts and their acini, accompanied by hyperplasia of the pericanalicular and periacinous connective tissue.
1937 S. A. Loewenberg Clin. Endocrinol. x. 647 Mazoplasia or adenosis..is often associated with bleeding from the nipple.
1964 L. C. Martin Clin. Endocrinol. (ed. 4) ix. 284 Mazoplasia (adenosis)... A diffuse nodularity of the breasts is caused by desquamation of epithelial cells which fill and block the terminal ducts and acini.
1978 Amer. Jrnl. Clin. Pathol. 69 422/2 The specific changes of fibrocystic disease, such as fibrous mazoplasia.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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