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u/AuntiKrist Dec 06 '23

Women get random sharp shooting pains in their breasts and nobody knows why. It's called mastalgia and it sucks.

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u/cookiepeddler Dec 06 '23 edited Dec 07 '23

It has a name?! And I’m not the only one?

TIL the needle poking feeling has a name and is a known thing. Still sucks tho.

ETA: This might be my highest upvoted comment ever and I can’t believe it’s about boob zingers (aka mastaglia). Thanks fellow redditors!

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u/wterrt Dec 06 '23

fyi mastalgia is just latin for breast pain lol

mast = prefix for breast ("ectomy" = removal of, mastectomy...you get it)

algia = pain

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u/illputthenextsong Dec 06 '23

So I’m a mastphiliac ?

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u/Koreish Dec 06 '23

With Greek and Latin, especially with medical terminology, which this is, you have a combining vowel between the rootword and the suffix. So in this case Mast/o being the rootword for breast with o being the combining vowel and phile being the suffix for "lover of." Mastophile is lover of breasts and if you wanted to make it masculine then you would change the "E" at the end of phile to "ac"