page_title: Areola
section_title: Color
hierarchical_section_title: Areola / Color
caption_attribution_description: English: breast
context_page_description: The human areola is the pigmented area on the breast around the nipple. Areola, more generally, is a small circular area on the body with a different histology from the surrounding tissue, or other small circular areas such as an inflamed region of skin.
  The mature human female nipple has several small openings arranged radially around the tip of the nipple from which milk is released during lactation. Other small openings in the areola are sebaceous glands, known as Montgomery's glands.
context_section_description: The areolae can range from pink to red to chocolate brown to dark brown or nearly black, but generally tend to be paler among people with lighter skin tones and darker among people with darker skin tones. A reason for the differing color may be to make the nipple area more visible to the infant.
caption: The difference between coloring of areolae.
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