Mammite
The mammite or mastite is the ignition of the udder in the mammals. One speaks about mammite puerpérale when it occurs in nursing mothers and non-puerpérale in the other cases. In rare cases the mammite can occur at the men. Inflammatory breast cancer has symptoms very close to those of the mammite and it thus should be checked if it is not in question.
The mammite cystic chronicle, also known as fibrokystic disease, is a situation rather than a disease, and it is characterized by the presence in the center of noncancerous nodules.
In the United States the term of mastite is usually employed for the bacterial mammite with symptoms of systemic infection, whereas the not-bacterial mammite puerpérale is described as clogging of the udder.
Names for the mammite non-puerpérale are not used in a very systematic way and one understands by there the mammite, the abscess subaréolaire, galactophoric ectasis, the ignition périductale.
In this article the term of mammite is used in the original direction of the definition to indicate the ignition of the center and one adds additional qualifiers to it where necessary.
The mammite is also a very common affection in veterinary medicine.
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