amastia

1. 1.

   absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect)

   Broaderabnormality

   surgery

Other forms of amastia

plural

amastias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amastia

What does amastia mean?

amastia means "absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect)".

How many syllables are in amastia?

amastia has 4 syllables: a-ma-sti-a. The stress falls on "ma".

Is amastia a common word?

amastia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.