BREAST

n. Brest. Goth., brusts. A.-S., breost. Gr., arñ0os (ist def.), orépvoy (Ist def.), pagés (2d def.), nagrés (2d def.). Lat., pectus (st def.), mamma (2d def.). Fr., poitrine (1st def.), sein (ist and 2d def's), mamelle (2d def.). Ger., Brust (1st def.), Brustdriise (2d def.). It., petto (1st def.), sena (@d def.). Sp., pecho (1st def.), seno (2d def.). “1, The chest, ekpecially its upper and anterior portion, 2. The mammary gland_—13.-bone. See STERNUM.—B.- pang. See ANGINA PECTORIS—Broken b. A popular term for absce of the mammary gland.—Hysterieal b. A form of irritable b. (q. v.) dependent on hysteria—Irritable b. A condition of induration and tenderne , with or without pain and swelling, of the whole or a part of the mammary gland, not from organic disease of the part, but as a manifestation of derangement of the eneral health or of the sexual or digestive organs. —Pigeon-b. t., pectus car in a tum. A deformity of the chest characterized by forward projection of its median portion.