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 breast [brest]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 胸部, 乳房, 胸怀

vt. 以胸对着, 面对

[医] 胸, 乳房


  1. His guilty conscience forced him to make a clean breast of everything.
    他的内疚使得他把一切和盘托出。
  2. They had chicken breast for supper.
    他们晚饭吃鸡胸肉。
  3. The part of a garment covering the chest or breasts.
    衣服的胸襟穿在胸部或乳房部分的衣服


breast
[ noun ]
  1. the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen

  2. <noun.body>
    he beat his breast in anger
  3. either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

  4. <noun.body>
  5. meat carved from the breast of a fowl

  6. <noun.food>
  7. the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest

  8. <noun.animal>
[ verb ]
  1. meet at breast level

  2. <verb.stative>
    The runner breasted the tape
  3. reach the summit (of a mountain)

  4. <verb.motion> summit
    They breasted the mountain
    Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit
  5. confront bodily

  6. <verb.competition>
    front
    breast the storm


Brest \Brest\, Breast \Breast\, n. (Arch.)
A torus. [Obs.]


Breast \Breast\ (br[e^]st), n. [OE. brest, breost, As.
bre['o]st; akin to Icel. brj[=o]st, Sw. br["o]st, Dan. bryst,
Goth. brusts, OS. briost, D. borst, G. brust.]
1. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly;
the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

2. Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the
front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of
some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the
nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.

My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother.
--Cant. viii.
1.

3. Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front
or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow
breast; the breast of a hill.

Mountains on whose barren breast
The laboring clouds do often rest. --Milton.

4. (Mining)
(a) The face of a coal working.
(b) The front of a furnace.

5. The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and
self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the
affections and passions; the heart.

He has a loyal breast. --Shak.

6. The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called,
probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs,
which lie within the breast. [Obs.]

By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast.
--Shak.

{Breast drill}, a portable drilling machine, provided with a
breastplate, for forcing the drill against the work.

{Breast pang}. See {Angina pectoris}, under {Angina}.

{To make a clean breast}, to disclose the secrets which weigh
upon one; to make full confession.


Breast \Breast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Breasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Breasting}.]
To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose
manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.

The court breasted the popular current by sustaining
the demurrer. --Wirt.

{To breast up a hedge}, to cut the face of it on one side so
as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

  1. He was hit twice _ in the left breast and in the left arm _ but managed to stagger into a hallway before he collapsed, Goslin said.
  2. At this institution we make a distinction between prophylactic mastectomy and mastectomy for risk reduction. Prophylactic mastectomy is a simple mastectomy that removes essentially all breast tissue and theoretically reduces the risk of cancer to zero.
  3. Recommendations are expected within 45 days. Saline-filled implants will not be affected by the moratorium. According to the FDA, about 20 per cent of the 1m women in the US with implants have them for breast reconstruction after cancer surgery.
  4. Several doctors say they have examined hundreds of women with breast implants and immune-system illnesses.
  5. President Bush, praising Marilyn Quayle for her efforts to fight cancer, signed legislation today that will provide federal money to screen women for breast and cervical cancer.
  6. Now the FDA has invoked essentially the same procedure that would be used to establish the safety of a new product, but has no standing to remove breast implants from the market in the absence of clear evidence that they are a definite health risk.
  7. He acknowledged that it will take a long time _ perhaps decades _ to definitely determine the safety of breast implants.
  8. "The first lady continues to emphasize the importance of mammography (breast X-ray) for early detection of cancer of the breast.
  9. "The first lady continues to emphasize the importance of mammography (breast X-ray) for early detection of cancer of the breast.
  10. Researchers estimate that 44,000 American women will die this year of breast cancer.
  11. Then surgeons are able to take out just the tumor and leave the rest of the breast.
  12. Medicare will pay for routine mammography tests to detect breast cancer beginning Jan. 1, under a regulation the government proposed Friday.
  13. Chuck Tatson, part-owner of Su Casa, a Mexican restaurant in Chicago, says he's now paying $1.80 a pound for the chicken breast he uses to make chicken "fajitas," compared with $1.25 a few months ago.
  14. So she silently watched her breast tumor grow for a year.
  15. Dow Corning is negotiating a bank financing pact that could limit the company's access to credit if legal costs linked to its silicone gel breast implants exceed $400 million.
  16. Whether in fact appropriate testing has or has not been conducted, one cannot deny that more than one million women have had breast implants.
  17. More than two million women have had breast implants over the past 30 years.
  18. Evidence in the U.S. and Japan indicates that women with silicone breast implants are much more likely to have certain human immune diseases than women as a group, an FDA panel was told.
  19. About 80% of breast implants are used to enlarge breasts for cosmetic reasons, with the remaining implants being used for reconstruction following cancer surgery or operations to fix deformities.
  20. Besides, through laziness and indecision rather than by plan, my hair, for which I am constantly receiving compliments, has grown so long that it completely covers my missing breast.
  21. Now, she said, the researchers are attempting to find the specific breast cancer gene within that chromosome.
  22. This year, breast cancer will be diagnosed in 142,000 women in the United States and will cause 43,000 deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.
  23. The president himself, they say, has lost so much credibility in recent months that only a presentation to the full cabinet, assembled in the Roosevelt Room, will assure skeptics that the secretary of state has "made a clean breast."
  24. ALGAE is proving the answer to finding an infant milk formula which is as close as possible to breast milk. Powdered baby milk lacks a long-chain fatty acid called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) which is the primary structural lipid in human brain tissue.
  25. If we have been putting breast implants into women for 30 years and there are more than two million of them out there, why do you suppose no one said anything or pointed fingers all that time until a few months ago?
  26. Sixty-one percent of physicians said they were giving greater emphasis to early breast cancer detection in symptom-free patients than they had five years ago.
  27. In January 1975, according to court documents, Dow Corning was in a great rush to develop a new silicone gel as well as a new line of breast implants.
  28. O'Connor issued the order at Georgetown University Hospital, where she is recovering from surgery Friday for breast cancer.
  29. That's because Heyer-Schulte and McGhan Medical basically duplicated the Dow Corning breast implant and simply began selling it themselves.
  30. Silicone gel has been found to cause malignant cancers in about one-quarter of test animals injected with the substance, which is used for breast implants in women.
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