gynecomastia

gynecomastia

English

Young male before and after surgery to correct gynecomastia.

Alternative forms

• gynaecomastia
• gynæcomastia
• gynaecomasty
• gynæcomazia

Etymology

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

Noun

gynecomastia (countable and uncountable, plural gynecomastias)

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

Synonyms

• moobs
• bitch tits

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 (nǚxìng huà rǔfáng) Kazakh: гинекомастия (gïnekomastïya) Korean: 여성형유방증 (yeoseonghyeong-yubangjeung) Lithuanian: ginekomastija f Polish: ginekomastia (pl) f Portuguese: ginecomastia 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