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Alternative forms

• gynæcomasty (obsolete)
• gynecomasty

Noun

gynaecomasty ‎(uncountable)

1. (physiology) The condition of a man developing breasts of a size and functionality of a woman's.
   • 1939: The authors report the case of a 40-year-old man with a predominantly left gynaecomasty who was found to be excreting a consistently high level of œstrogen — Annales d'Endocrinologie, Doin 1939, p. 287
   • 1995: Apart from the skin lesions there were no abnormalities other than bilateral gynaecomasty for which no cause was detected. — Tropical and Geographical Medicine, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen 1995, p. 92

Related terms

• gynecomastia
• gynaecomastia