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MAMMARY GLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Milk-secreting organ of female mammals
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mammary gland" is a kind of...):
duct gland; exocrine; exocrine gland (a gland that secretes externally through a duct)
Meronyms (parts of "mammary gland"):
mamilla; mammilla; nipple; pap; teat; tit (the small projection of a mammary gland)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mammary gland"):
dug (an udder or breast or teat)
bag; udder (mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats))
boob; bosom; breast; knocker; tit; titty (either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman)
Holonyms ("mammary gland" is a part of...):
female mammal (animals that nourish their young with milk)
Context examples:
A mammary gland that did extend into the fat pad but not completely or did not respond to lactogenic hormones.
(Hypoplasia of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
The enveloping membrane of the body; includes, in addition to the epidermis and dermis, all of the derivatives of the epidermis, e.g., hairs, nails, sudoriferous and sebaceous glands, and mammary glands.
(Integumentary System, NCI Thesaurus)
Many spindle cell carcinomas of the mammary gland are myoepithelial.
(Myoepithelial Carcinoma of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
A mammary gland with reduced lobular development when stimulated by lactogenic hormones.
(Lobuloacinar Hypoplasia of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
The hemispheric projection, including the mammary gland, located on the anterior portion of the chest, lateral to the midline, on the side of the body to the west when facing north.
(Left Breast, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes alpha-lactalbumin protein, is involved in the modulation of lactose synthesis in the mammary gland.
(LALBA wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Focal granulomatous inflammation of the mammary gland.
(Granuloma of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
A mass in the mammary gland, either mobile or immobile.
(Breast Lump, NCI Thesaurus)
In females: pituitary adenoma 26%, ureter carcinoma 22%, adrenal cortical adenoma 19%, cervix sarcoma 15%, mammary gland fibroadenoma 11%, islet adenoma 11%.
(BN, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
The superolateral extension of the mammary gland into the axilla that consists of fibroadipose tissue, lymph nodes, and lymphatics.
(Axillary Tail of the Breast, NCI Thesaurus)
