Viewed in the light of comparative anatomy, polymastia is interesting, as showing a tendency to re-establish the series of mammae seen in other mammalia; but Darwin has lately repudiated atavism as a cause of this malformation
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Polymastia
//pɒlɪˈmæstɪə//
Synonyms for "polymastia" (4 found)
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Translations
9 translations across 9 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- polimàstia noun (Translations)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 多乳房症 noun (Translations)
French
1 entries- polymastie noun (Translations)
Galician
1 entries- polimastia noun (Translations)
Greek
1 entries- πολυμαστία noun (Translations)
Italian
1 entries- polimastia noun (Translations)
Portuguese
1 entries- polimastia noun (Translations)
Russian
1 entries- полимасти́я noun (Translations)
Spanish
1 entries- polimastia noun (Translations)
Sample sentences
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The warts on its skin, you see, remind one of the extra nipples which every she-witch was supposed to have and that goes back (am I boring you, dear boy? How is your glass?) that goes back to the polymastia or superfluity of breasts of the ancients.
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