Medical Definition of Milk gland

1. Milk producing gland of female mammals. An adapted sweat gland, it is made up of milk producing alveolar cells, surrounded by contractile myoepithelial cells, together with considerable numbers of fat cells. Milk production is hormonally controlled. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Milk Gland

milk anaemia
milk banks
milk bar
milk can
milk chocolate
milk colic
milk corpuscle
milk cow
milk crust
milk cyst
milk ducts
milk ejection
milk factor
milk fever
milk float
milk gland (current term)
milk glass
milk hypersensitivity
milk intolerance
milk leg
milk leg
milk let-down reflex
milk line
milk of bismuth
milk of calcium
milk of magnesia
milk of magnesia
milk of sulfur
milk powder
milk pox

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