cystic mastitis
- noun
- /ˈsɪstɪk mæˈstaɪtɪs/
- Specialized
- The doctor diagnosed her with cystic mastitis after she reported persistent breast pain and swelling.
Examples
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Ultrasound imaging can help detect cystic mastitis and differentiate it from other breast conditions.
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Treatments for cystic mastitis may include medication to reduce inflammation and manage symptoms.
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She was diagnosed with cystic mastitis last year.
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Is cystic mastitis common among breastfeeding mothers?
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The doctor diagnosed her with cystic mastitis after she reported persistent breast pain and swelling.
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Treatments for cystic mastitis may include medication to reduce inflammation and manage symptoms.
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Ultrasound imaging can help detect cystic mastitis and differentiate it from other breast conditions.
Synonyms
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An infection that causes swelling, pain, and redness in the breast or udder
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A non-cancerous breast condition with small fluid lumps and firm areas that can be painful
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A breast condition with small fluid-filled lumps and firm tissue that is not cancer and may cause pain
Small lumps filled with fluid form in the breast tissue
A condition that causes lumps or pain in the breast
An illness that affects the breast, causing pain or lumps
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term is transparently compositional: 'cystic' means relating to cysts and 'mastitis' means inflammation of the breast, so together they denote mastitis involving cysts. This follows regular medical word-formation patterns (adjective + noun) and is cross-linguistically comparable, so a learner who knows the constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Cystic mastitis comes from its two parts: cystic (from 'cyst', a small fluid-filled sac) and mastitis (from words meaning 'breast' and 'inflammation'). The image is of fluid-filled lumps making the breast sore and swollen, so the phrase now means 'breast inflammation with cysts'.