polymastian.
/ˌpɒlɪˈmastɪə/, U.S. /ˌpɑliˈmæstiə/ Medicine.
The congenital condition of having supernumerary breasts. Cf. polythelia n. at poly- comb. form 1.
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gynaecomasty1873
polymastia1878
polymastism1886
micromazia1890
micromastia1918
1878 Glasgow Med. Jrnl. 10 70 Polymastia is not extremely rare in the female sex, but is so in the male.
1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence (1908) I. vi. 421 Polymasty or supernumerary breasts occurs about once in five hundred persons.
1928 M. Summers Discov. Witches 40 A large number of cases may be explained by polymastia and polythelia, anatomical divagations which are far commoner than is generally supposed.
1970 H. P. Leis Diagnosis & Treatm. Breast Lesions i. 15 Polymastia, presenting as more than one breast on one or both sides, is due to the persistence of part of the milk ridge and these supernumerary breasts can occur anywhere along the milk line.
1992 S. S. Hall Mapping Next Millennium (1993) x. 198 Even humans are susceptible to the same kind of segmental mutations, although we rarely see them because they hardly ever survive gestation; a classic, grotesque example is the occasional woman with multiple sets of breasts, or polymastia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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