gynecomastia

English

Young male before and after surgery to correct gynecomastia.

Alternative forms

• gynaecomastia, gynæcomastia
• gynecomasty, gynaecomasty, gynæcomasty

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) and μαστός (mastós, “breast”).

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɡaɪnɪkə(ʊ)ˈmæstɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɡaɪnɪkoʊˈmæstiə/, /ˌɡaɪnɪkəˈmæstiə/, /ˌd͡ʒaɪnɪkoʊˈmæstiə/, /ˌd͡ʒaɪnɪkəˈmæstiə/

Noun

gynecomastia (countable and uncountable, plural gynecomastias)

1. (American spelling, pathology) Excessive development of breasts in men, resembling the breast development in women.

   Synonyms: gynecomastism, gynecomazia

   • 2006, Merle J. Yost, Demystyifying Gynecomastia: Men with Breasts, →ISBN, page 24:

     But probably the primary reason for gynecomastia in adult onset is drugs—and these are not illegal drugs.

Derived terms

• gyno
• pseudogynecomastia

Translations

development of breasts in males

• Armenian: գինեկոմաստիա (ginekomastia)
• Asturian: xinecomastia f
• Basque: ginekomastia
• Belarusian: гінекамастыя f (hinjekamastyja)
• Bihari: गाइनेकोमास्टिया
• Bulgarian: гинекомастия f (ginekomastija)
• Catalan: ginecomàstia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 男性乳房发育 (nánxìng rǔfáng fāyù)

• Dutch: gynaecomastie (nl) f
• Finnish: naisnisäisyys
• French: gynécomastie (fr) f
• Galician: xinecomastia f
• German: Gynäkomastie (de) f
• Greek: γυναικομαστία (el) (gynaikomastía)
• Hebrew: גינקומסטיה (he) f (ginekomastya)
• Hindi: पुंस्तनवृद्धि (punstanvŕddhi), गाइनेकोमैस्टिआ (gāinekomaisṭiā)
• Indonesian: ginekomastia
• Italian: ginecomastia (it) f
• Japanese: 女性化乳房 (josei-ka nyūbō)
• Kazakh: гинекомастия (ginekomastiä)
• Korean: 여성형유방증 (yeoseonghyeong'yubangjeung)
• Lithuanian: ginekomastija f
• Polish: ginekomastia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ginecomastia (pt) f
• Russian: гинекомасти́я (ru) f (ginekomastíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гинекома̀стија f

  Roman: ginekomàstija (sh) f

• Slovak: gynekomastia f
• Spanish: ginecomastia f
• Swahili: jinekomastia
• Swedish: gynekomasti (sv) c
• Tagalog: hinekomastiya, ginekomastiya
• Telugu: గైనేకోమస్తియా (gainēkōmastiyā)
• Turkish: jinekomasti
• Ukrainian: гінекомастія f (hinekomastija)
• West Frisian: gynekomasty

See also

• man boob, moob
• bitch tits

Further reading

• gynecomastia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia