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areola

[uh-ree-uh-luh] / əˈri ə lə /
NOUN
ring over head
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A Facebook spokesperson said the site allowed images of post-mastectomy areola tattoos on a page or profile but not within advertising.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2021

Receiving the areola tattoos after breast reconstruction surgery made Provenza feel complete again.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2016

She numbs the area and applies the tattooed areola in one session.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2016

In most cases, surgeons remove the nipple and areola as a safeguard as well.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 29, 2016

The drawing was made when the pustule was beginning to die away, and the areola retiring from the centre.

From An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox by Edward Jenner

Few studies have been done on why the areolae, in particular, might be reactive to the cold.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2011

For example, turtles that retained the areola of the third central lamina, retained also the areolae of the fourth and fifth centrals; when only one central areola remained, it was the fifth.

From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler

P. exp. obtuse, glabrous, tawny, cuticle cracked into areolae, hence the surface is crowded with minute dark wart-like papillae; g. adnate, broad, dark rust; s. filiform, almost naked, blackish.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. exp. edge striate, squamulose, whitish, cuticle broken into greyish tawny areolae or scales; g. broad, whitish, brownish when bruised; s. yellowish-white, squamulose, ring thin, fugacious.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

But these areolae may perhaps rather be considered as merely the points of production of the tubes.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Henry Smith Williams

She said her mother going through a lumpectomy - the partial removal of a breast - because of cancer inspired her to “create areolas through tattooing and help women feel whole again.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 29, 2016



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