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mamillary, a.|ˈmæmɪlərɪ|
Also 7 mammillarie, mammilary, 7–9 mammillary.
[f. L. mamillāris: see mamilla and -ary2.]
1. Of or pertaining to the breast; also, † having mammæ.
1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 278 The..milky juyce, passing..through the mammilary conduits into the breasts. 1792J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 165 The only mamillary biped which we have, is the Bat. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 981 To the left of the mammillary or mid-thoracic line.
2. a. Of the form of a mamma; mammiform. mamillary body [prob. tr. mod.L. corpus mamillare], either of a pair of small white hemispherical structures lying side by side between the tuber cinereum and the posterior perforated substance in the interpeduncular fossa on the ventral surface of the brain. mamillary process: (a) the mastoid process of the temporal bone; (b) pl. the metapophysis of the lumbar vertebræ; † (c) pl. the olfactory lobes.
1615Crooke Body of Man 433 The mamillary processes which are the Organes of smelling. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 16 The bottom of the Ear (in which place the Mammillary processe is). 1722Quincy Lex. Physico-Med. (ed. 2) 126/1 It is the Entry to the Sinus in the Mammillary Process. 1741Monro Anat. Nerves (ed. 3) 39 The Mammillary Processes of the Brain. 1797M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 274 The mamillary portion of the kidney. 1832J. Quain Elem. Anat. (ed. 2) viii. 642 A thin lamella of white substance,..called locus perforatus,..is triangular, the sides being formed by the crura cerebri, the base by the mammillary bodies. 1865Lubbock Preh. Times 230 Small mammillary elevations which are known as Indian corn-hills. 1881Mivart Cat 39 The anterior process..is termed the mammillary process, or Metapophysis. 1921Tilney & Riley Form & Functions Cent. Nervous Syst. xxxiv. 613 The mammillary body serves as a relay station in the olfactory tract. 1942O. Larsell Anat. Nervous Syst. xviii. 249 The mammillary bodies are two elevations..just rostral to the posterior perforated substance. 1967G. M. Wyburn et al. Conc. Anat. vii. 190/2 The depressed area between the peduncles, the interpeduncular fossa, has the following structures from behind forwards: the posterior perforated substance, the paired mamillary bodies, the tuber cinereum and infundibulum..and the optic chiasma.
b. Having mammiform protuberances.
1813Bakewell Introd. Geol. 355 Mammillary, with a number of convex smooth surfaces. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 202 Sometimes the travertin assumes precisely the botroidal and mammillary forms, common to similar deposits, in Auvergne. 1841J. Trimmer Pract. Geol. 348 The sides of the cells are coated with mamillary concretions. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 265 Gibbous and coarsely mammillary.
c. mamillary brooch (Antiq.): one consisting of two cup-shaped pieces connected by a handle.
1862W. R. Wilde Catal. Gold Antiq. R. Irish Acad. 57 Mammillary Fibulæ—For the sake of distinction and arrangement, we have applied this term to a class of gold ornaments, of great diversity of size, found in abundance in Ireland. 1863D. Wilson Preh. Ann. I. ii. vi. 459 The dilated gold fibulæ styled..Mamillary Brooches. |