Breast

(brest.) [A.S. ] (Anat.) The whole of the anterior part of the thorax. In a restricted and more usual sense, the female breasts consist of two globular and soft projections, composed of common integuments, adipose substance, and lac teal glands and ve els, and adhering to the anterior and lateral regions of the thorax. On the middle of each B. is a projecting portion, termed the papilla, or nipple, in which the ex cre tory ducts of the glands terminate, and around which is a colored orb, or disc, called the areola. [s. 114]