The circular area around the nipple is called areola.
Source: tatoeba (8958471)
Areola
//əˈɹi.ə.lə//
Synonyms for "areola" (40 found)
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45 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- هالة noun (circle around the nipple)
- هَالَة noun (circle around the nipple)
Bengali
1 entries- অ্যারিওলা noun (circle around the nipple)
Catalan
2 entries- arèola noun (circle around the nipple)
- arèola noun (anatomy: small circular area in general)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 乳暈 /乳晕 noun (circle around the nipple)
Czech
3 entries- areola noun (circle around the nipple)
- dvorec noun (circle around the nipple)
- prsní dvorec noun (circle around the nipple)
Dutch
2 entries- areola noun (circle around the nipple)
- tepelhof noun (circle around the nipple)
Estonian
1 entries- nännipiha noun (circle around the nipple)
Finnish
2 entries- nänninpiha noun (circle around the nipple)
- rengas noun (anatomy: small circular area in general)
French
1 entries- aréole noun (circle around the nipple)
Galician
1 entries- aréola noun (circle around the nipple)
German
1 entries- Warzenhof noun (circle around the nipple)
Greek
1 entries- άλως noun (circle around the nipple)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- areol noun (circle around the nipple)
Hungarian
1 entries- kis felület noun (circle around the nipple)
Icelandic
1 entries- vörtubaugur noun (circle around the nipple)
Ido
1 entries- areolo noun (circle around the nipple)
Ilocano
1 entries- binaklay noun (circle around the nipple)
Indonesian
1 entries- areola noun (circle around the nipple)
Japanese
1 entries- 乳輪 noun (circle around the nipple)
Korean
2 entries- 그물코 틈 noun (circle around the nipple)
- 유륜 noun (circle around the nipple)
Lithuanian
1 entries- areolė noun (circle around the nipple)
Māori
1 entries- wāhi pūpango noun (circle around the nipple)
Persian
1 entries- هاله noun (circle around the nipple)
Polish
1 entries- otoczka noun (circle around the nipple)
Portuguese
1 entries- aréola noun (circle around the nipple)
Russian
1 entries- арео́ла noun (circle around the nipple)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- areola noun (circle around the nipple)
- ареола noun (circle around the nipple)
Slovak
2 entries- dvorec noun (circle around the nipple)
- prsný dvorec noun (circle around the nipple)
Spanish
1 entries- areola noun (circle around the nipple)
Swedish
1 entries- vårtgård noun (circle around the nipple)
Tamil
1 entries- சிற்றிடம் noun (circle around the nipple)
Telugu
1 entries- చూచుకము noun (circle around the nipple)
Turkish
3 entries- areola noun (circle around the nipple)
- ağırşak noun (circle around the nipple)
- meme aylası noun (circle around the nipple)
Vietnamese
1 entries- quầng đỏ noun (circle around the nipple)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Her areola is rather enlarged.
Source: tatoeba (11535869)
Working with the Personal Genome Project, she has collected measurements and images of the areolas of 150 people so far. One initial finding is that the diameter of the areola seems unrelated to the number of areola glands — the small bumps in the skin surrounding the nipple.
Source: wiktionary
The tubes or elongated spaces of which we have spoken, are not distended with any fluid, but are merely moistened in the same way as the areolas of ordinary areolar tissue.
Source: wiktionary
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