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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 482 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BREAST (a word See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. the Ger. Brust, possibly connected with an O. See also:Sax. brustian, to bud) , the See also:term properly confined to the See also:external projecting parts of the See also:thorax in See also:females, which contain the mammary glands (for See also:anatomy, and diseases, see MAMMARY GLAND); more generally it is used of the external See also:part of the thorax in animals, including See also:man, lying between the See also:neck and the See also:abdomen .

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