gynecomastia

English

Young male before and after surgery to correct gynecomastia.

Alternative forms

• gynaecomastia
• gynæcomastia
• gynaecomasty
• gynæcomazia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) and μαστός (mastós, “breast”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɡaɪnɪkə(ʊ)ˈmæstɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɡaɪnɪkoʊˈmæstiə/, /ˌɡaɪnɪkəˈmæstiə/, /ˌd͡ʒaɪnɪkoʊˈmæstiə/, /ˌd͡ʒaɪnɪkəˈmæstiə/

Noun

gynecomastia (countable and uncountable, plural gynecomastias)

1. (American spelling, medicine) Excessive development of breasts in males, resembling the breast development in women.

Synonyms

• moobs
• bitch tits

Derived terms

• gyno
• pseudogynecomastia

Translations

development of breasts in males

• Armenian: գինեկոմաստիա (ginekomastia)
• Asturian: xinecomastia f
• Basque: ginekomastia
• Belarusian: гінекамастыя f (hinjekamastyja)
• Bihari: गाइनेकोमास्टिया
• Bulgarian: гинекомастия f (ginekomastija)
• Catalan: ginecomàstia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 男性乳房发育 (nánxìng rǔfáng fāyù)

• Dutch: gynaecomastie (nl) f
• Finnish: naisnisäisyys
• French: gynécomastie (fr) f
• Galician: xinecomastia f
• German: Gynäkomastie (de) f
• Greek: γυναικομαστία (el) (gynaikomastía)
• Hebrew: גינקומסטיה‎ (he) f (ginekomastya)
• Hindi: पुंस्तनवृद्धि (punstanvŕddhi), गाइनेकोमैस्टिआ (gāinekomaisṭiā)
• Indonesian: ginekomastia
• Italian: ginecomastia (it) f

• Japanese: 女性化乳房 (josei-ka nyūbō)
• Kazakh: гинекомастия (gïnekomastïya)
• Korean: 여성형유방증 (yeoseonghyeong-yubangjeung)
• Lithuanian: ginekomastija f
• Polish: ginekomastia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ginecomastia f
• Russian: гинекомасти́я (ru) f (ginekomastíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гинекома̀стија f

  Roman: ginekomàstija (sh) f

• Slovak: gynekomastia f
• Spanish: ginecomastia f
• Swahili: jinekomastia
• Swedish: gynekomasti (sv) c
• Tagalog: hinekomastiya, ginekomastiya
• Telugu: గైనేకోమస్తియా (gainēkōmastiyā)
• Turkish: jinekomasti
• Ukrainian: гінекомастія f (hinekomastija)
• West Frisian: gynekomasty