Definition of Mammillated

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Mammillated

1. 1. Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammae. 2. Bounded like a nipple; said of the apex of some shells. See: Mammilla. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mammillated

mammiferous
mammifers
mammiform
mammil-
mammilated
mammilla
mammillae
mammillaplasty
mammillaria
mammillaries
mammillariform
mammillary
mammillary bodies
mammillary body
mammillate
mammillated (current term)
mammilliform
mammillitis
mammilloid
mammillothalamic
mammitides
mammitis
mammo-
mammock
mammocked
mammocking
mammocks
mammogenesis
mammogram
mammogramme

Literary usage of Mammillated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Exterior of the Horse by Armand Goubaux, Gustave Barrier (1904)
"... that when they are shed, leave between themselves a mammillated surface which is moulded upon the corresponding extremity of the replacing tooth. Fio. ..."

2. The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth by Aubrey Strahan (1898)
"... during the solidification of the stone, and that the mammillated surface was rucked up in the course of the process, when individual portions of the ..."

3. The Jurassic Rocks of Britain by Geological Survey of Great Britain, Charles Edward Fox-Strangways, Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (1895)
"UPPER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND: FlO. 103. mammillated surface of Limestone, (Fig. ... mammillated ..."

4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1894)
"1'hc gold foil was stained nearly black on both sides over about two-thirds its area ; the black deposit had a blistered or mammillated structure, ..."

5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"1. The nipple of the mammary gland. Hence — 2. Some nipple-like or mammillary structure. The crystals of others [stones] assume a mammillated form, ..."

6. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1839)
"In three cases the mucous membrane was thickened and mammillated at the pyloric and middle portions. In a fourth case, the mucous membrane of the pyloric ..."

7. On the Organic Diseases and Functional Disorders of the Stomach by George Budd (1856)
"But it was rightly remarked by M. Louis, that the mammillated appearance of the stomach cannot be attributed to contraction of the muscular fibres, ..."

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