h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oooo nippples

How many do you have, 2legs? I have 3

I'm of the opinion that you can never really have too many nipples, yours or otherwise. I have the standardised two, or at least that I'm aware of.

Some stories also say that she had a mole or goiter on her next, which was possibly a third nipple. > on her chest?

Sometimes the breast tissue under the supernumery nipple can develop, especially during pregnancy. Apparently, the known record number of breasts on a human female is ten. This is known as polymastia.

Apparently, 1 in 200 women will develop 3 or more nipples (=0.5%)

On her neck. Whoops

I'll add that BigAl, but I really don't want to write too much medical stuff because it's all so boring to me.

the things you learn on h2g2! I imagine she had real problems finding bras...

Here there again.
I tried to find some stats, but I gave up because I find them terribly boring as well. Do you have a source for that?

I nkow you said you find medical stuff boring, but there is an association of 3rd nippleness with other medical conditions.

GOTO

http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic735.htm

I already saw that one I also saw several sites that disagreed with those conclusions.

And when I was a little boy, the doctor told me that my little friend Nippy (that's his name) was harmless. But that probably doesn't count for anything.

Hmm. Could have called this Entry, Nippy - Mostly Harmless

He's never brought me anything but joy

My oh My!
The Postings on this one are piling up at a rate of knots Jodan!
Shows you what most of us are really interested in, doesn't tit?

I nipple off now, before you get chance to clip my ear!


f.

This site has a picture if you wanted to link to it:

http://health.allrefer.com/health/supernumerary-nipples-supernumerary-nipples.html

(I've actually been trying to find any famous 'polymastics' apart from Ann Boleyn)

BigAl is compromising my innocence with that link! Witch! Witch! Catch 'er!

Hi frontiersman
Well, goes to show. I write an entry on Alexander Hamilton, who created the US coast guard, created a strong US executive branch, wrote the Federalist papers and was the first Treasury Secretary... snoozers - three replies in a week. I write an entry on Tri-Nips and I get 30 posts in a few hours

This is one of the sites I found which mentions the record being 10 functional breasts

http://eros-lasvegas.com/articles/2004-07-27/topten0727/

Ok. I've added that and the 1 in 200 stat now that I've seen a source. Normally I wouldn't accept that as a reputable source, but oh well. I'll take what I can get... 'tis only an article on nipples.

Well, this site is a medical one, which also has stats on supernumerary nipples and breasts. It shows variation according to ethnicity.

Haven't (yet) been able to find a medical site wyyich corroborates the record for polymastia.

http://www.emedicine.com/plastic/topic214.htm

Ok

I wanna know if ten breasts really is true. Actually, I kind of want to leave it in even if it's false. It makes for compelling reading