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NIPPLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("nipple" is a kind of...):
cap (a top (as for a bottle))
Holonyms ("nipple" is a part of...):
bottle; feeding bottle; nursing bottle (a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The small projection of a mammary gland
Synonyms:
mamilla; mammilla; nipple; pap; teat; tit
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("nipple" is a kind of...):
reproductive organ; sex organ (any organ involved in sexual reproduction)
Holonyms ("nipple" is a part of...):
mamma; mammary gland (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb nipple
Context examples:
A condition in which abnormal cells are found in the nipple.
(Paget disease of the nipple, NCI Dictionary)
Retraction of the nipple may sometimes occur.
(Paget Disease of the Breast, NCI Thesaurus)
A malignant epithelial cellular proliferation characterized by the presence of atypical cells with large nuclei and abundant pale cytoplasm within the squamous epithelium of the nipple.
(Paget disease of the nipple, NCI Thesaurus)
Ulcer that develops in the nipple.
(Nipple Ulceration, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive, non-metastasizing neoplasm with sweat duct differentiation that arises in the area of the nipple.
(Nipple Syringomatous Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Fluid that is not milk coming from the nipple.
(Nipple discharge, NCI Dictionary)
An aspiration of nipple discharge using a fine needle to investigate the presence of disease.
(Nipple Discharge Aspiration, NCI Thesaurus)
A carcinoma that develops in the ducts of the nipple.
(Nipple Duct Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign or malignant neoplasm that arises in the area of the nipple.
(Nipple Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
It begins in the lining of the milk ducts (thin tubes that carry milk from the lobules of the breast to the nipple) and spreads outside the ducts to surrounding normal tissue.
(Infiltrating ductal carcinoma, NCI Dictionary)
