MAMMALIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mammalian mean? 

• MAMMALIAN (noun)
  The noun MAMMALIAN has 1 sense:

1. any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk

  Familiarity information: MAMMALIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• MAMMALIAN (adjective)
  The adjective MAMMALIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the class Mammalia

  Familiarity information: MAMMALIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAMMALIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

mammal; mammalian

Hypernyms ("mammalian" is a kind of...):

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

Meronyms (parts of "mammalian"):

coat; pelage (growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal)

hair; pilus (any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal)

Domain member category:

weaned (freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk)

anestrous ((of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat)

estrous ((of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat)

plantigrade ((of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do))

digitigrade ((of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do))

mount; ride (copulate with)

biauriculate heart (a heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles)

allantois (the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals))

chorion (the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals))

amnion; amnios; amniotic sac (thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals))

Amniota (higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mammalian"):

female mammal (animals that nourish their young with milk)

tusker (any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar))

prototherian (primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea)

metatherian (primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas)

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

fossorial mammal (a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging)

Holonyms ("mammalian" is a member of...):

class Mammalia; Mammalia (warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female)

Derivation:

mammalian (of or relating to the class Mammalia)

• MAMMALIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the class Mammalia

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Mammalia (warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female)

Derivation:

mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)

 Context examples 

An agent targeting the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) in the PI3K/mTOR signaling pathway, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Dual PI3 Kinase/mTOR Inhibitor PKI-587, NCI Thesaurus)

Metformin may exert antineoplastic effects through AMPK-mediated or AMPK-independent inhibition of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), which is up-regulated in many cancer tissues.

(Metformin hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

In mammalian cells, this complex is important for double-strand break repair, meiotic recombination, and telomere maintenance.

(MRE11/RAD50 Double-Strand Break Repair Complex, NCI Thesaurus/from OMIM)

Also called mammalian target of rapamycin.

(mTOR, NCI Dictionary)

An orally available agent targeting phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinase in the PI3K/mTOR signaling pathway, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Dual PI3 Kinase/mTOR Inhibitor GDC-0980, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic family of mammalian pathogenic bacterium, which produce mycelial filaments or muriform thalli, in the phylum Actinobacteria that includes the genera Dermatophilus and Kineosphera, among others.

(Dermatophilaceae, NCI Thesaurus)

The cell-surface receptor EphA2, a member of the ephrin family of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) involved in mammalian development, is overexpressed by a variety of different cancer cell types.

(Anti-EphA2 Monoclonal Antibody-MMAF Immunoconjugate MEDI-547, NCI Thesaurus)

In mammalian bone marrow, B-Cell Development consists of progressive differentiation from CD34+ progenitor cells to plasma and memory B cells by positive/negative selection in response to local signals, including antigens and cytokines.

(B-Cell Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus)

ASK plays a pivotal role in the G1/S transition in mammalian cells and its function is essential for entry into S phase.

(CDC7L1 Kinase Complex, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in neuronal regulation and is involved in the development of the mammalian central nervous system.

(CDK5 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)