breast tissue
Mammary gland material
Breast tissue is the combination of glandular, fatty, and connective tissue that makes up the breast.
The term appears most often in medical contexts—mammograms, cancer screenings, and discussions of breast health: The scan showed dense breast tissue.
Breast tissue changes throughout life, responding to hormones during puberty, pregnancy, and menopause.
- mammaryOf milk glands
- glandSecreting body organ
- fibrousMade of threads
- fattyHigh in lipids
- lobulesSmall subdivisions of lobes
ducts · milk ducts · areola · nipple · biopsy · lump · dense · soft · milk · lactation · estrogen · hormones · mastectomy · mammogram · benign · cyst · collagen · connective
- breast cancermastectomy, mammogram, lumpectomy, mammography, BRCA
- tissuesadipose, bone, connective, dense, elastic
- breastsnipple, nipples, areola, mammary gland, bust
- female anatomyvagina, vulva, uterus, ovary, ovaries
- thoraxthorax, chest, ribcage, chest cavity, chest wall
- Cancer Screeningmammogram, mammography, early detection, routine screening, screening guidelines
tissue type
breast tissuebone
Hard skeletal tissue
bone tissue · muscle tissue · skeletal muscle · teeth · enamel
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