Breast

What to look for

• Follow a lactiferous duct from a lobe to the nipple.
• Find the suspensory (Cooper's) ligaments that support the breast.
• Note how much of the breast is fat between the glandular lobes.

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Parts in this model

• Interlobar adipose tissue of left mammary gland
• Areolar tubercle
• Left nipple
• Left female areola
• Mammary lobe
• Main lactiferous duct
• Lactiferous sinus
• Suspensory ligament of left breast
• Interlobar adipose tissue of right mammary gland
• Right nipple
• Right female areola
• Suspensory ligament of right breast

About this model

This organ comes from the Human Reference Atlas female reference organ set (HuBMAP, CC BY 4.0), simplified for the web. It is a reference shape, not a single person's scan, and organ sizes vary between people.

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