Gynecomastia, or gynaecomastia,
pronounced is the development of abnormally large
mammary glands in
males resulting in breast enlargement, which can sometimes cause secretion of milk. The term comes from the
Greek gyne meaning "woman" and mastos meaning "breast". The condition can occur physiologically in
neonates, in
adolescents, and in the elderly. In adolescent boys the condition is often a source of distress, but for the large majority of boys whose pubertal gynecomastia is not due to
obesity, the breast development shrinks or disappears within a couple of years . The causes of common gynecomastia remain uncertain, although it has generally been attributed to an imbalance of
sex hormones or the tissue responsiveness to them; a root cause is rarely determined for individual cases. Breast prominence can result from
hypertrophy of breast tissue, chest
adipose tissue and skin, and is typically a combination. Breast prominence due solely to excessive adipose is often termed pseudogynecomastia or sometimes lipomastia.
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