GYNECOMASTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gynecomastia mean? 

• GYNECOMASTIA (noun)
  The noun GYNECOMASTIA has 1 sense:

1. excessive development of the breasts in males; usually the result of hormonal imbalance or treatment with certain drugs (including some antihypertensives)

  Familiarity information: GYNECOMASTIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GYNECOMASTIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excessive development of the breasts in males; usually the result of hormonal imbalance or treatment with certain drugs (including some antihypertensives)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("gynecomastia" is a kind of...):

abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)

 Context examples 

A minority of patients have gynecomastia.

(Adult Type Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Deficiency can result in male pseudohermaphroditism with gynecomastia.

(HSD17B3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

In males it usually presents as a painless testicular enlargement and it may be associated with gynecomastia and decreased libido.

(Leydig Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Male patients may develop gynecomastia and impotence.

(Estrogen-Producing Adrenal Cortex Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Gynecomastia in infants and boys may be caused by an imbalance in certain hormones.

(Gynecomastia, NCI Dictionary)

Gynecomastia is present in approximately a quarter of the patients.

(Adult Type Testicular Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples of non-neoplastic disorders include fibrocystic disease, gynecomastia, and mastitis.

(Breast Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include fibrocystic disease, gynecomastia, mastitis, and adenosis.

(Non-Neoplastic Breast Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Certain allelic variants of the CYP19A1 gene exhibit functional mutations that result in enhanced aromatase activity which, in turn, causes familial gynecomastia.

(CYP19A1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Additional signs in males include erectile dysfunction, muscle atrophy, gynecomastia and increased abdominal fat.

(Hypogonadism, NCI Thesaurus)