breast

• female breast produce and store milk that provides nourishment
• female breast tissue

  • glandular tissue - milk production
  • fibrous tissue - suppert glandualar tissue, copper ligaments
  • fatty tissue - determines size and shape
• early mens or delayed menopause increases the risk of breast cancer
• BSE

  • standing with arms raised over head
  • standing with hands on hips
  • lying down with pillow and feel
  • standing up and feel
• peau d'orange - orange-peel like appearace associated with cancer (edema)
• retracted breast tissue - malignancy
• paget diease - redness and flaking of nipple
• mastitis - reddened, painful area
• nipple inversion - from breast cancer
• mastectomy - removal of breast
• nipple to areola - correct way of sucking the breast
• table of spence - axillary lymph node
• protalin produces milk and oxytocin is the milk itself
• lactiferous duct - passageway of the breast
• gynaedosmastia - man boobs
• resonance - lung
• tympany - abdominal
• dull - organs
• flat - bones