(n.) The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
(n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.
(n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.
(n.) The face of a coal working.
(n.) The front of a furnace.
(n.) The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.
(n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.
(v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
Example Sentences:
(1) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(2) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(3) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(4) Breast temperatures have been measured by the automated instrumentation called the 'Chronobra' for 16 progesterone cycles in women at normal risk for breast cancer and for 15 cycles in women at high risk for breast cancer.
(5) In contrast, human breast milk contained substantially increased levels of immunoreactive PTHrP.
(6) Early detection of breast cancer is the major indication, and mammography is the single best test for this task.
(7) PAF was found in almost all carcinoma, although it was not detected in most of the matched, nontumor breast tissue samples.
(8) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
(9) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
(10) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.
(11) 10 women in the study developed carcinoma in the same or opposite breast within 16-20 years, a rate of incidence 480% greater than among the general population of women of the same age.
(12) The ability of ligand to stimulate its own synthesis and that of its receptor suggests the presence of an autocrine positive feedback loop, however we were unable to break this loop in the breast cancer cells by antibodies that blocked the interaction of TGF alpha with the EGF receptor.
(13) The most frequent primary tumours were: carcinoma of the breast (37%), lung (25%), kidney (16%), rectum (9%).
(14) Zinc alpha-2 glycoprotein (ZnGP) was measured in human breast microcysts, breast secretions, breast cyst fluid and serum.
(15) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(16) After an introductory note on primary preventive intervention of breast cancer during adulthood, the author defends and extends a hypothesis that relates most of the known risk factors for this disease to the development of preneoplastic lesions in the breast.
(17) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
(18) Advanced breast cancer responds to a range of cytotoxic agents, but resistance always develops.
(19) The concentration of potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) was measured in breast cyst fluid (BCF) from 611 cysts greater than 3 ml aspirated in 520 women with gross cystic disease of the breast.
(20) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
Pectus
Definition:
(n.) The breast of a bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) Partial duplication of the proximal part of the long arm of chromosome 5, on the other hand, is associated mainly with musculoskeletal abnormalities including muscle hypotrophy and hypotonia, scoliosis, lordosis, pectus carinatum, cubitus valgus, and genu valgum, in addition to psychomotor retardation.
(2) Two strikingly similar brothers issued from consanguineous parents in the second degree present the following patterns of anomalies: retardation of growth, mental deficiency, ocular abnormalities, pectus excavatum and camptodactyly.
(3) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(4) Surgical procedures for the treatment of pectus excavatum--sternocostal elevation and sternal turnover--resulted in an excellent cosmetic result but did not importantly affect respiratory function.
(5) An emergency operation consisting of Cabrol's procedure for aortic dissection Stanford Type A and sternal turnover for pectus excavatum was performed simultaneously.
(6) From 1949 to 1977, 254 children underwent surgical reconstruction of pectus excavatum by means of a variety of operations at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
(7) Seventy-one patients had operations for correction of pectus excavotum; 16 had pectus carinatum deformities repaired.
(8) We reviewed the records of 28 patients with Marfan syndrome and 30 age-matched control patients with presumed isolated pectus excavatum to determine the outcome of surgical repair of the pectus deformity in Marfan syndrome.
(9) Pectus excavatum would therefore seem to be the expression of a minor form of dystrophy of collagen and elastin tissues and a clinical marker of possible mitral valve prolapse.
(10) The shape of pectus excavatum makes it particularly amenable to correction with the transverse abdominal myocutaneous flap.
(11) Early repair of marked pectus excavatum in young children is safe and is efficacious in providing a suitable body contour.
(12) Pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum deformities are not uncommon.
(13) For these reasons we advocate operation for pectus deformity as any age.
(14) Over a 14-yr period, 13 patients have had surgical correction of pectus carinatum at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
(15) Patients with "straight back" and pectus excavatum should be examined clinically and perhaps by echocardiography to exclude idiopathic prolapse of the mitral valve; when murmurs are present, a diagnosis of "pseudoheart disease" should not be made before mitral valve prolapse has been excluded.
(16) There were no differences in abdominal pressure swings during respiration between the patients with pectus excavatum and the control subjects.
(17) Respiratory distress and congestive heart failure were rapidly relieved, while the pectus deformity improved gradually and completely disappeared in 6 months to 2 years after surgery.
(18) We report a case of King's syndrome without the cryptorchidism and pectus carinatum associated with the syndrome.
(19) Pulmonary function was evaluated in 138 patients with pectus excavatum, paying particular attention to the degree of severity of chest deformity.
(20) Pectus carinatum is a cosmetic problem, but its presence can be psychologically devastating to the patient.