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Breast ironing
Breast ironing, also called breast flattening, is the practice of pressing pubescent girls' breasts with hot objects to delay development, reported most often in Cameroon.
Breast milk
Breast milk (human milk), the milk produced by human mothers to feed infants; over a thousand bioactive components, WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding for six months, ~47% global rate.
Breast reconstruction
Breast reconstruction is surgery that rebuilds a breast after mastectomy or lumpectomy, using an implant or the patient's own tissue; about 80% of US procedures use implants.
Breast reduction
Breast reduction (reduction mammaplasty) is surgery removing breast skin and tissue to relieve macromastia symptoms; pedicle techniques, 2.5% major complications, improved quality of life, 76,040 US procedures in 2025.
Breast self-examination
Breast self-examination (BSE) is a screening method in which a woman inspects and palpates her own breasts to detect lumps, though large trials found no mortality benefit.
Breast torture
Breast torture, also called tit torture or TT, is a consensual BDSM pain play targeting the breasts, areolas, and nipples with clamps, weights, impact, wax, or rope, ranging from clothespins to edgeplay such as breast suspension.
Breast ultrasonography
Breast ultrasonography, introduced by John J. Wild and John M. Reid in 1952, uses high-frequency sound waves to visualize breast tissue, detect lesions, and guide biopsies as a standard adjunct to mammography.
Breast ultrasound
Breast ultrasound is a diagnostic imaging method using high-frequency sound waves to tell fluid-filled cysts from solid masses, supplement mammography in dense breasts, and guide needle biopsies.
Breast-1F trial
Breast-1F (NCT06946238) is a randomized non-inferiority trial at IRCCS San Raffaele, Milan, testing single-fraction 15.5 Gy stereotactic APBI with SIB to 21 Gy versus 30 Gy in 5 fractions in 311 women with favorable early-stage breast cancer.
Breast-conserving surgery
Breast-conserving surgery, also called lumpectomy or partial mastectomy, removes a breast cancer tumor with a rim of healthy tissue while keeping the breast; radiation follows, and survival equals mastectomy.
Breast-conserving therapy
Breast-conserving therapy, also called lumpectomy with radiation, treats early-stage breast cancer by removing the tumor with healthy tissue margins while keeping the breast, with survival equal to mastectomy.
Breastaurant
A breastaurant is a casual-dining restaurant featuring scantily-clad waitresses, the term being a blend of breast and restaurant and associated above all with Hooters, opened in Clearwater, Florida, in 1983.
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding: feeding an infant milk from the breast. WHO, AAP, and Dietary Guidelines recommend exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, continuing to 2 years or older; US exclusive rate at 6 months is 29.8%.
Breastfeeding in public
Breastfeeding in public: nursing an infant in cafes, transport, and other shared spaces. Legally protected in the US since New York's 1984 law and under the UK Equality Act 2010, yet stigma remains a documented barrier to breastfeeding.
Breasts and Eggs (乳と卵)
Breasts and Eggs (乳と卵) is Mieko Kawakami's 2007 Akutagawa Prize-winning novella, expanded into the novel Natsu monogatari (夏物語) and translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd (Picador, 2020), about Natsuko, Makiko, and Midoriko.
Breaststroke
Breaststroke: chest-down competitive swimming stroke with simultaneous arm pull and frog kick, an Olympic event since 1904; slowest, least efficient of the four strokes, governed by World Aquatics rules.
Breath (2017 film)
Breath (2017) is Simon Baker's feature directorial debut, an Australian drama adapted from Tim Winton's Miles Franklin-winning novel about two 1970s teenage surfers; premiered at TIFF 2017, released in Australia May 2018, earning A$4.36 million.
Breath (숨) (2007 film)
Breath (숨, Soom) is Kim Ki-duk's 2007 South Korean drama about a woman visiting a mute death-row inmate; starring Park Zi-a, Ha Jung-woo, and Chang Chen, it competed at Cannes 2007 and is distinct from Jang Min-yong's 2007 experimental short The Breath.
Breath holding
Breath holding, a voluntary or involuntary pause in breathing (ICD-11 MD11.3), ends at a breakpoint driven by rising CO2, lung stretch, and involuntary override; includes childhood breath-holding spells and freediving physiology.
Breath of Fire (TV series)
Breath of Fire is HBO's 2024 four-part documentary series by Hayley Pappas and Smiley Stevens on Kundalini yoga teacher Guru Jagat (Katie Griggs), based on Hayley Phelan's Vanity Fair story, covering Yogi Bhajan's movement and her 2021 death.
Breath of Fire (ブレス オブ ファイア)
Breath of Fire (ブレス オブ ファイア) is a Japanese role-playing game series by Capcom, running from 1993 to 2016, starring the dragon-transforming hero Ryu.
Breath test
A breath test measures gases in exhaled breath to detect disease, chiefly the urea breath test for H. pylori and hydrogen tests for malabsorption and SIBO.
Breath-figure templating
Breath-figure templating, also called the breath figure method, is a fabrication technique in which condensing water droplets act as templates that turn a drying polymer solution into ordered, honeycomb-patterned porous films.
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory is a 1994 debut novel by the Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat, following Sophie Caco, a girl sent at twelve from rural Haiti to New York.
Breathalyzer
The Breathalyzer is a breath alcohol testing instrument invented in 1954 by Robert F. Borkenstein of the Indiana State Police; the name became generic for breath testers.
Breathe (2014 film)
Breathe (Respire), 2014 French drama by Mélanie Laurent, adapted from Anne-Sophie Brasme's novel; toxic friendship between teenagers Charlie (Joséphine Japy) and Sarah (Lou de Laâge); Cannes Semaine de la Critique premiere, two César nominations. Distinct from Breathe In (2014) and Breathe (2017).
Breathe (2017 film)
Breathe (2017) is Andy Serkis's directorial debut, a British biographical drama about Robin Cavendish, paralyzed by polio at 28, produced by his son Jonathan Cavendish, starring Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy, released October 2017.
Breathe (British band)
Breathe (British band) was an English pop group formed in London in 1984. They were the first British act to place three Top 10 pop hits from their 1988 debut album.
Breathe (TV series)
Breathe (TV series) is a 2018 Hindi-language Indian crime thriller on Amazon Prime Video, its second Indian original after Inside Edge. R. Madhavan plays Danny Mascarenhas, who kills organ donors to save his son; Amit Sadh plays inspector Kabir Sawant. Eight episodes, directed by Mayank Sharma, followed by Breathe: Into the Shadows (2020).
Breathe: Into the Shadows
Breathe: Into the Shadows, an Indian Hindi-language Amazon Prime Video psychological crime thriller (2020–2022), second chapter of the Breathe franchise, starring Abhishek Bachchan as psychiatrist Avinash Sabharwal, whose daughter's kidnapping forces him to kill; Amit Sadh reprises Kabir Sawant.