More or less bulky more or less infiltrated of grease and located in front of the pectoral large muscle.
This gland is particularly sensitive to hormone secretions as prove it its various variations during the menstrual cycle and its important amendments with the exchange rate and after a pregnancy.
The morphology of a bosom is extremely variable (function of its volume, of its basis of implantation, the elasticity of tissues) and is not always adapted to the silhouette of the patient.
Thus can be bulky (
mammary hypertrophy) or on the contrary insufficiently developed (
mammary hypoplasia).
Under the negotiable instrument of the variations which it undergoes, the bosom can subside (
mammary ptosis).