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AMASTIA
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I. (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)