BREAST LIFT

BREAST LIFT GLOSSARY

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• FACTORS: Any of two or more quantities that are multiplied together
• PREGNANCY: the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
• NURSING: the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm
• BREASTS: The term breast can refer to the upper ventral region of the human torso. Alternatively, the term is used for each of two parts of that, especially for women: the breasts are parts of the female human body that contain the organs that secrete milk used to feed infants. Males also have breasts and are born with the main milk ducts intact, but while the gland that produces milk is present in the male, it normally remains undeveloped
• ELASTICITY: the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
• FIRMNESS: the muscle tone of healthy tissue; "his muscular firmness"
• MASTOPEXY: Also called a breast lift, this procedure removes excess skin in order to lift up sagging or drooping breasts
• AREOLA: a small area, rounded, more or less polygonal or angular, delimited by cracks or chinks in thallus surface. pl. areolae
• CONJUNCTION: concurrence: the temporal property of two things happening at the same time