mazo-, -mazia

1. A woman or girl soldier; hence, a large, strong masculine-type of female warrior: In full uniform, Mable resembles an Amazon because she is mannish, physically powerful, and seems inclined to be ready to fight anyone who gives her any trouble.
2. Etymology: derived from Greek mythology, a female warrior "without a breast" because of the story that the Amazon women, warriors of Scythia, Greece, were said to cut off (or burn off) one breast to make it easier to use a bow when shooting arrows during a battle.

The Greek fable illustrates the word Amazon that comes from a-, "without" and mazos, "breast".

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The abnormal proliferation or enlargement of the glandular component of breast tissues in males: Gynecomazia is strictly a male disease and is any growth of the adipose (fatty) and glandular tissue in a male breast. Not all breast growth in men is considered abnormal, just excess growth.

Enlargement of the breasts or the development of breast tissue: A mastoplasia is considered to be an abnormal multiplication or an increase in the number of normal cells of mammary gland tissue.

A pain in the breast; mastodynia; mastalgia: A mazodynia can occur because of breast cancer, a breast infection, or by a breast injury, among other causes.

Someone who studies the animal class of Mammalia which refers to warm-blooded creatures that have body hair and feed milk to its young.

The branch of zoology that studies mammals which is a class of vertebrates with characteristics; such as, fur, blood, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems.

1. Divination or predicting the future while observing babies when they are nursing: By the way of mazomancy Lucy's mother watched her infant while nursing her to see if she was going to grow up tall, be smart, and beautiful.
2. Etymology: from the Greek mazos, "breast" and manteia, "prophecy".

Someone who predicts the future while watching a baby nursing milk from his or her mother.

An outdated term for any disease of the female breast; mastopathy: One main and most tragic type of mazopathy is breast cancer.

Someone who is sexually stimulattaed or excited by female breasts: Sandra read in a book that a person who was a mazophile was overly enticed by a woman's breasts.

Pertaining to or referring to mammary mania or an excessive interest in breasts: Janet didn't wan t anything to do with Sam who evidently was a mazophilous person who always goggled at her breasts.

A clinical term that is expressed when a person is sexually stimulated by female breasts and it is probably one of the most universal forms of sexual desires among normal men and teenage boys.

A degenerative condition (gradual deterioration) of breast tissue.

A condition characterized by the presence, normal or abnormal, of four breasts or mammary glands: There are some animals that have tetramastias; however, it is extremely unusual for a human to have them.