are there milk ducts in your armpit?
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Breast tissue extends into the armpit and it has a special name “the Tail of Spence”. During engorgement, for example when your milk first comes in, you may notice lumps and swelling in your armpits. Use the tips in Engorged Breasts to reduce this engorgement.
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Sensitive and tender breasts: Hormones in your body are preparing your breasts for lactation. The milk ducts are growing and being stretched as they fill with milk early in pregnancy. All this causes your breasts to be more sensitive, particularly your nipples. This may cause you discomfort.
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Yes, bumps around your nipple are completely normal but they shouldn't hurt or look red or swollen. The medical name for the “bumps” around the nipple is called the “Montgomery glands”. They may be more noticeable when a woman becomes aroused and/or when a woman is pregnant.
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Armpit lumps can occur in men and women of all ages. However, a lump under the arm could indicate breast cancer. Women should perform monthly breast self-exams and report any breast lumps to a doctor right away.
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Acini cells are the smallest functional unit of the breast. Several hundred acini cells in each breast produce milk into a separate duct (terminal duct) Milk funneled into the ductal system toward the nipple.
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In pregnancy, the breasts may start to produce milk weeks or months before you are due to have your baby. If your nipples are leaking, the substance is usually colostrum, which is the first milk your breasts make in preparation for feeding your baby. Leaking is normal and nothing to worry about.
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Your breast tissue extends to under your armpit. The armpits have many lymph nodes, also known as lymph glands. There is also a chain of lymph nodes that runs up the center of your chest, by your breast bone. This is called the internal mammary chain.
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Apocrine glands are found regularly in the axilla, anogenital region, the areola and nipple of the female breast, the eyelids (Moll's glands), and the external auditory canal. They are sometimes found in the skin of the scalp and the face.
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Apocrine glands in the skin and eyelid are sweat glands. Most apocrine glands in the skin are in the armpits, the groin, and the area around the nipples of the breast. Apocrine glands in the skin are scent glands, and their secretions usually have an odor.
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Commonly developing from the mammary glands or ducts, such malignant lumps generally (about 50 percent) appear in the upper, outer quadrant of the breast, extending into the armpit, where tissue is thicker than elsewhere.
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Studies show some women have as few as 3 milk lobules/ducts and others as many as 15. As a result the amount of milk that can fit in a woman's breasts varies - anywhere from 2oz to 5oz combined is average but some women can store as much as 10 oz in one breast (this is very unusual).
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breast duct. A thin tube in the breast that carries milk from the breast lobules to the nipple. Also called milk duct.
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Exocrine glands are glands that secrete their products into ducts. They are the counterparts to endocrine glands, which secrete their products directly into the bloodstream. Typical exocrine glands include sweat glands, salivary glands, mammary glands, and many glands of the digestive system.
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They have no ducts, of course, but they secrete their products directly on the free surface of open body cavities and thus, are considered exocrine. The most common unicellular exocrine glands are the goblet cells (mucus secreting cells) found in the epithelium of the trachea and the digestive tube.
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Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery During breast reduction surgery, some glandular tissue is removed, milk ducts and nerves are cut, and the nipple may be moved, all of which can impact the breast's ability to produce and express milk.
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Symptoms of Thrush While Breastfeeding Itchy nipples while breast-feeding can be a sign of a yeast infection in you, or thrush in your baby's mouth. A yeast infection can affect the nipples and other parts of the body, including the mouth (where it is called thrush), genitals, and breast.
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For women who are pregnant or recently gave birth, lactation is normal. Hormones signal the mammary glands in your body to start producing milk to feed the baby. But it's also possible for women who have never been pregnant — and even men — to lactate.