NOUN
- excessive development of the breasts in males; usually the result of hormonal imbalance or treatment with certain drugs (including some antihypertensives)
How To Use gynecomastia In A Sentence
- There was mild gynecomastia, but there were no other stigmata of chronic liver disease.
- However, this hormone is extremely expensive, and its adverse effects include carpal tunnel syndrome, headache, arthralgias, myalgias and gynecomastia.
- The physical examination should focus primarily on signs of liver disease other than jaundice, including bruising, spider angiomas, gynecomastia, testicular atrophy, and palmar erythema.
- Excess fat contains an enzyme called aromatase, which converts some of your body's testosterone into estrogen and may lead to assorted abnormalities, such as gynecomastia (unsightly man-boobs).
- And products containing lavender oil or tea tree oil -- both of which have estrogenic effects -- have been shown to cause enlarged breasts in young boys (gynecomastia). Joan Liebmann-Smith, PhD and Jacqueline Egan: Baby Health Quiz: 6 Questions to Test Your Knowledge
- Some types of liver disease and cancers of several types can produce gynecomastia.
- 1 With a decrease in androgen production, secondary sexual characteristics might not completely develop, and features of eunuchoidism and gynecomastia JAMA current issue
- The term gynecomastia is used to describe male breast enlargement.
- However, this hormone is extremely expensive, and its adverse effects include carpal tunnel syndrome, headache, arthralgias, myalgias and gynecomastia.
- That is technically called gynecomastia, that men develop the breasts get enlarged. CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2005
