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gynæcomazia

gynæcomazia is the alternative form of gynecomastia.

Meaning of gynecomastia

Noun

gynecomastia (countable and uncountable, plural gynecomastias)

  1. (US) Excessive development of breasts in men, resembling the breast development in women.
    • But probably the primary reason for gynecomastia in adult onset is drugs—and these are not illegal drugs.2006, Merle J. Yost, Demystyifying Gynecomastia: Men with Breasts, →ISBN, page 24

Origin of gynæcomazia

From gynæco- + Ancient Greek μαζός (mazós); compare gynæcomastia.

Questions about gynæcomazia

What is gynæcomazia the alternative form of?
Gynæcomazia is the alternative form of gynecomastia.

Words near gynæcomazia in the dictionary

  1. gynæcology
  2. gynæcomast
  3. gynæcomastia
  4. gynæcomasts
  5. gynæcomasty
  6. gynæcomazia
  7. gynæcomorphous
  8. gynæconitis
  9. gynæcophore
  10. gynæcophores
  11. gynæcophoric

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gynæcomazia (page history and authors); gynecomastia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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