breast implant
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3.8
- noun
- /brɛst ˈɪmplænt/
- Specialized
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implante mamario
- After recovering from her surgery, she felt more confident thanks to her new breast implants.
- silicone breast implants
- capsule around a breast implant
- hematoma after breast implants
And the first thing that I wrote about was how silicon in breast implants were poisoning women.
- And the first thing that I wrote about was how silicon in breast implants were poisoning women.
- And at the time there were hundreds of thousands of people in this group that was all about breast implant illness.
- Whereas with breast augmentation, it's an opening and insertion of a breast implant, which has risks of its own.
- She ended up getting a breast implant and a new fucking ass and she woke up.
- And so thanks so much for being on mission with me and for helping share this message because the world needs to know the truth about breast implants.
Examples
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So breast implants shouldn't affect breastfeeding?
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At least seven million women have received breast implants.
Academic text (2015) -
What is your position on breast implants?
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For those of you who are actually thinking of getting breast implants, I have something new I want you to try.
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And Mel, I've learned that my breast implants are making me sick.
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Not only did this guy help me keep my money and my house, he got the court to order my ex to return the breast implants that I paid for.
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Why didn't they investigate breast implants all those years?
Fiction book (1992) -
FYI, boys, Danielle has promised to use this $10,000 for breast implants!
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Plastic surgeons should reassure their female patients that the risk of developing ALCL after receiving breast implants is exceedingly small.
Academic text (2015) -
The first is Silimed, Latin America's only manufacturer of silicone breast implants, and the third-largest company of its kind in the world.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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A device that doctors put into the body to replace or support a body part
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: an 'implant' (a device inserted into the body) applied to 'breast' clearly denotes a device implanted in the breast to replace or augment it. This noun–noun compound follows standard, cross-linguistic naming patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Breast implant comes from the simple picture of a small device called an implant being put under the breast to replace or add tissue. That's why the phrase means 'a device used to replace or enlarge a breast'.