AMASTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amastia mean? 

• AMASTIA (noun)
  The noun AMASTIA has 1 sense:

1. absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect)

  Familiarity information: AMASTIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMASTIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("amastia" is a kind of...):

abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)

Domain category:

surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)