In anatomical terms, the cleft in the human body between the breasts is known as the intermammary cleft or intermammary sulcus.
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In surgical parlance, the cleavage or intermammary cleft is also known as the "medial definition" or "medial fold" of breasts.John Bostwick, Plastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery (volume 1), page 21, Quality Medical Pub, 2000, Sylvia H. Heywang-Koebrunner, Ingrid Schreer and Susan Barter, Diagnostic Breast Imaging, page 62, Thieme, 2019, An imaginary line between the nipples that crosses the intermammary cleft, serving as a landmark for some CPR procedures, is known as the "intermammary line".
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Symmastia is a condition defined as a confluence of the breast tissue of both breasts across the intermammary cleft that normally divides them. It can be surgically corrected by a plastic surgeon through symmastia revision. Symmastia can either be a congenital anomaly or iatrogenic. Congenital symmastia is a rare condition with few published cases.
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Symmastia is a condition defined as a confluence of the breast tissue of both breasts across the intermammary cleft that normally divides them. It can be surgically corrected by a plastic surgeon through symmastia revision. Symmastia can either be a congenital anomaly or iatrogenic. Congenital symmastia is a rare condition with few published cases.
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Intermammary cleft can get attacked by plaque type psoriasis, which can in turn can cause erythematosus.Alan Menter and Benjamin Stoff, Psoriasis, page 25, CRC Press, 2010, Prurigo pigmentosa is a rare skin condition of unknown cause that affects depressed places on chest and back like the intermammary area. It is characterized by the sudden onset of erythematous papules that leave a reticulated hyperpigmentation when they heal.James, William; Berger, Timothy; Elston, Dirk (2005).
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Jennifer M. Ivers, Information and Meaning: Connecting Thinking, Reading, and Writing, page 44, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2003, In the same book, she argues human fascination with full cleavage may be a result of our fascination with round objects and attraction towards well-defined curves.Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography, pages 112–115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) Books, 1999, Vincenz Czerny, one of the early surgeons to perform a breast surgery, believed the aesthetics of cleavage to be a sign of symmetry and hence beauty.Nora Jacobson, Cleavage: Technology, Controversy, and the Ironies of the Man-made Breast, page 48, Rutgers University Press, 2000, A study published in 2020 found intermammary distance (IMD), or cleavage gap, is one of the major influences on people's perception about a woman's fertility, health and age.Farid Pazhoohi, Ray Garza and Alan Kingstone, Effects of Breast Size, Intermammary Cleft Distance (Cleavage) and Ptosis on Perceived Attractiveness, Health, Fertility and Age, Springer, 2020-02-28 Another study found women who display cleavage are more often identified as "voluptuous" than women who do not.
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