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mammary
Part of speech: AdjectiveOf or pertaining to the breasts, or mammae.
Usage examples "mammary":- In heavy milkers, before and just after calving, it is the rule that the mammary gland is enlarged, hot, tense, and tender, and that a slight exudation or pasty swelling extends forward from the gland on the lower surface of the abdomen. - "Special Report on Diseases of Cattle", U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler.
- Now, if in the castrated male is transplanted an ovary, the positive characteristics of the female are evoked, such as enlarged mammary glands, and a tendency to secretion of milk. - "The Glands Regulating Personality", Louis Berman, M.D..
- Thus, there can be little doubt that the mammary gland was as apparently useless in the remotest male mammalian ancestor of man as in living men, and yet it has not disappeared. - "Critiques and Addresses", Thomas Henry Huxley.