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Mastitis Montgomery's tubercles
Meconium Morning sickness
Mesoderm Moro reflex
Midwife Mucous plug
Miscarriage Multigravida
Mongolian blue spot Multipara
Mongolism

Mastitis
Inflammation of the breast, usually caused by bacterial infection via damaged nipples. It most often occurs as puerperal mastitis developing during the period of breast-feeding, about a month after childbirth, and sometimes there is a discharge of pus.