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

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