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gynaecomastia

gynaecomastia 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

Questions about gynaecomastia

What is gynaecomastia the alternative form of?
Gynaecomastia is the alternative form of gynecomastia.

Words near gynaecomastia in the dictionary

  1. gynaecologist
  2. gynaecologists
  3. gynaecology
  4. gynaecomania
  5. gynaecomast
  6. gynaecomastia
  7. gynaecomastic
  8. gynaecomasts
  9. gynaecomasty
  10. gynaecomorphous
  11. gynaeconitis

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