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March 14, 2007 9:19 PM   Subscribe

Pseudomamma on the foot: An unusual presentation of supernumerary breast tissue.
posted by Burhanistan (27 comments total)

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That's weird.
posted by oaf at 9:22 PM on March 14, 2007


It's a NUBBIN.
posted by padraigin at 9:23 PM on March 14, 2007


It's her triple nipple.
posted by justgary at 9:27 PM on March 14, 2007


I wonder if a foot-fetish enthusiast would find this anomaly a pro or a corn.
posted by HyperBlue at 9:28 PM on March 14, 2007 [1 favorite]


Supernumerary nipples, and less frequently supernumerary breasts, are present in about 1-5 percent of the population. Such alterations are more common in women, usually occurring along the embryonic milk line, which extends from the axilla to the groin.

Supernumerary breast tissue (SBT) is rarely found beyond the mammary line. However, the back, shoulder, face, and thigh have been described as sites of SBT development. When glandular tissue is present, SBT may be affected by the same disease processes that occur in normally positioned breast tissue. To our knowledge, this is the first report of SBT on the foot...

SBT is not exempt from the same diseases and physiologic processes that can affect normally positioned breasts, including the cyclical alterations induced by hormone action.


Embryology is weird.
posted by mediareport at 9:31 PM on March 14, 2007


Betty Friedan died too soon to burn her support-hose.
posted by rob511 at 9:34 PM on March 14, 2007


Somewhere, someone is fapping to this.
posted by bshort at 9:37 PM on March 14, 2007 [1 favorite]


Now, it all makes sense about Prince Charming....
posted by rob511 at 9:38 PM on March 14, 2007


FootTitty, meet ArmDick.
posted by ColdChef at 9:48 PM on March 14, 2007


She's gone ass over tits.
posted by milquetoast at 9:51 PM on March 14, 2007


*barf* Bodies can be damned strange.
posted by davidmsc at 10:03 PM on March 14, 2007


Yes, I'm reminded of the day I received Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine from "Broadway Bookfinders" in the mail when I was in the sixth grade. My mother didn't want me to bring it to school, but I did anyway.

I think this kind of thing was known even back when that book was published, back in 1896.
posted by Tube at 10:09 PM on March 14, 2007


What gets me is how centered the nipple is, it actually doesn't look that strange. Unusual, yes, but not like a deformity.

It's certainly not as gross as the guy growing 'keratin-like matter' growing all over his hands *shudder*
posted by delmoi at 10:16 PM on March 14, 2007


There once was a gal from Brazil
Who's dermatologists got quite a thrill
From her supernumerary breast tissue
They made the Spring issue
With a budby-on-the-hoof. I feel ill.

posted by mosk at 10:18 PM on March 14, 2007


Supernumerary nipples, and less frequently supernumerary breasts, are present in about 1-5 percent of the population.

Sounds about right. As a physician, I see them often. Many of the people who have them don't know what they are.

Anyone who is interested in the biology of this sort of thing (or in two-headed or cyclops animals, etc) should read Sean Carroll's wonderful Endless Forms Most Beautiful. It's not really about anomalies but rather how genes work to determine the shapes of animals and where the parts go.
posted by neuron at 10:21 PM on March 14, 2007 [1 favorite]


Thanks neuron, I'm adding that to my list.

Also on the same topic, I highly recommend Armand Leroi's Mutants.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 10:48 PM on March 14, 2007


"Pseudomamma" is a very appropriate name for that sort of anomoly.
posted by inconsequentialist at 11:30 PM on March 14, 2007


It'd be awful to be a guy with cock-foot. Ouch.
posted by newfers at 11:36 PM on March 14, 2007


Or scrotum-heel.
posted by newfers at 11:36 PM on March 14, 2007


Previously.
posted by Aidan Kehoe at 1:34 AM on March 15, 2007


Actually, not quite; the link was mentioned in the comments. As you were!
posted by Aidan Kehoe at 1:35 AM on March 15, 2007


At the age of 25, I recently discovered that a mole under my pectoral is actually a supernumary nipple. Apparently they usually grow along the milk lines.

And apparently, males have milk lines.
posted by aliasless at 1:39 AM on March 15, 2007


Well that's udderly ridiculous!
posted by DenOfSizer at 3:40 AM on March 15, 2007


Yep, I have one too, but--thank hoty jeebus-- not on my foot. It is just a tiny pink nubbin under the curve of my right breast. It really isn't noticable unless I point it out. Doesn't ole Marky Mark have one?
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 8:28 AM on March 15, 2007


I was just thinking that this breasted-foot woman is really lucky she wasn't alive when people were executed for being witches. That has to be the best example of a "devil's suck" ever seen.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 8:36 AM on March 15, 2007


Foot-tit insane?
posted by BeerFilter at 3:12 PM on March 15, 2007


It'd be awful to be a guy with cock-foot. Ouch.

I don't know... I reckon most guys can get their foot in their mouth....
posted by Hal Mumkin at 9:39 PM on March 15, 2007


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