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Definition of Galactocele
1. Noun. A cystic tumor containing milk or a milky substance (especially in the mammary glands).
Medical Definition of Galactocele
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Galactocele
Literary usage of Galactocele
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Breast and Mammary Region by Alfred Velpeau (1856)
"galactocele seems only to have been a temporary tumour. Thus, in the case of a
woman, recorded by Siebold, two milk-cysts existed near the axilla, ..."
2. The Medical News (1881)
"galactocele; Incision; Cvre. Mrs. T , aged eighteen, first came under Mr. ...
Out of seventeen cases of galactocele recorded by Gross there had been a ..."
3. Constructing Social Theories by Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1885)
"galactocele or Milk-Tumor consists in an accumulation of milk, in either a fluid
or a concrete condition, due to obstruction of one or more of the ..."
4. A Text-book of genito-urinary diseases by Leopold Casper (1906)
"Spermatocele is to be considered in a somewhat different light than galactocele and
... galactocele ..."
5. A Treatise on the Breast and Its Surgical Diseases by Homer Irvin Ostrom (1877)
"galactocele.—Tumors formed of milk, or of some of its constituents, occur either as
... When a galactocele occurs in the early days of lactation, ..."
6. A Manual of obstetrics by William Alexander Newman Dorland (1896)
"(6) galactocele.—Occasionally there will be noted in the breast of a nursing
woman a soft cystic tumor containing a collection of milk, and resulting from ..."
7. A System of surgery: theoretical and practical v.5 by Timothy Holmes (1871)
"galactocele—a milky tumour, or a swelling caused by ruptu: of the milk-tubes and
escape of their contents into the ..."
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