Female Breast

Question 1

Nipple

Answer 1

Small
Composed of dense connective tissue, numerous blood vessels, encapsulated nerve endings, with stands of smooth muscle arranged circulary around ducts.
Onset of puberty the female nipple enlarges

Question 2

Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue

Answer 2

Main component of the breast, that is embedded in fibrous connective tissue
Determines size and shape of a woman’s breast.

Question 3

Lobules

Answer 3

Made of glandular tissue, produces milk
15 or so in the breast
extend outward from the ends of milk ducts, penetrate the breast tissue

Question 4

Lactiferous Ducts

Answer 4

Milk ducts

Each duct drains the lobules of the breast

Question 5

Lactiferous Sinuses

Answer 5

Dilated ducts near the nipple

Question 6

Lactiferous tubules

Answer 6

The converged lactiferous sinuses

Opens at the base of the nipple

Question 7

After lactation

Answer 7

glandular lobules reduce in size the appaearnce of the breast resumes that of the mature, non lactating tissue

Question 8

Cooper’s Suspensory Ligaments

Answer 8

Fibrous tissue strands in the dermis of the skin covering the breast radiate out in a circular fashion from the nipple, extending toward the clavicle and deep fascia of the upper chest
Discovered by sir Astley Cooper

Question 9

Pendulous Breasts

Answer 9

Occurs in older women, due to the atrophy of cooper’s ligaments
They swing

Question 10

Breast Cancer

Answer 10

Cooper’s ligaments may contract around the tumor to produce a pitted or dimpled appearance in the skin.
Men can develop breast cancer if their lactiferous ducts undergo abnormal growth