MAMMARY GLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mammary gland mean? 

• MAMMARY GLAND (noun)
  The noun MAMMARY GLAND has 1 sense:

1. milk-secreting organ of female mammals

  Familiarity information: MAMMARY GLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAMMARY GLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Milk-secreting organ of female mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

mamma; mammary gland

Hypernyms ("mammary gland" is a kind of...):

duct gland; exocrine; exocrine gland (a gland that secretes externally through a duct)

Meronyms (parts of "mammary gland"):

mamilla; mammilla; nipple; pap; teat; tit (the small projection of a mammary gland)

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

dug (an udder or breast or teat)

bag; udder (mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats))

boob; bosom; breast; knocker; tit; titty (either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman)

Holonyms ("mammary gland" is a part of...):

female mammal (animals that nourish their young with milk)

 Context examples 

An increase in any epithelial cells of the mammary gland.

(Hyperplasia of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A focus of residual alveoli that persist in the mouse mammary gland following hormone stimulation

(LobuloAlveolar Mouse MIN, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

An increase of connective tissue in the mammary gland.

(Fibrosis NOS of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Lactose production is restricted to the mammary glands because galactosyltransferase alone does not have the substrate specificity required to produce lactose.

(Lactose Synthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Neuregulins are involved in the normal development of mammary gland, are secreted by breast cancer cells, and can alternatively promote or inhibit breast cancer cell division.

(Neuregulin, NCI Thesaurus)

MMTV INT3 interruption of NOTCH4 produces a gain-of-function truncated product, containing only the transmembrane and intracellular domains, that has profound consequences for mammary gland development and tumorigenesis.

(Notch4 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Paget disease involving the skin overlying the mammary gland, without accompanying invasive ductal or lobular breast carcinoma.

(Paget Disease of the Breast without Invasive Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers found that the mammary glands of parous mice developed more quickly and showed signs of milk production earlier than those of non-parous mice.

(Mammary Gland May Have Epigenetic Memory, NIH)

This protein plays a role in smooth muscle contraction in both the mammary gland and uterus.

(Oxytocin, NCI Thesaurus)

Paget disease involving the skin overlying the mammary gland, accompanied by invasive ductal breast carcinoma.

(Paget Disease of the Breast with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)