The Female Breast: Anatomy, the Milk Ejection Reflex, Lactation and the Types of Nipple

The anatomy and physiology of the female breast - the glandular, fibrous and fatty tissue, the fifteen to twenty lobes arranged radially, the lobules and alveoli and the lactiferous ducts with their ampullae or sinuses, and the nipple variants from the normal conical nipple to the bifida, flat and inverted. Lactation is then taken through the neuro-endocrine control, the myoepithelial cells contracting under oxytocin in the milk ejection or let-down reflex, the factors that influence milk production and the inhibition and suppression of lactation after a fetal or neonatal death, with the bromocriptine and the engorgement that follows.