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mamillated, ppl. a.|ˈmæmɪleɪtɪd|
Also 8–9 mammillated, 9 mammalated, mam(m)el(l)ated, mammilated.
[f. mamillate a. + -ed1.]
1. Having rounded protuberances or projections; covered with mammiform excrescences. spec. in Path. as a morbid condition of certain viscera; also Geol. and Min.
1741Stack in Phil. Trans. XLI. 713 The inward Membrane had on its concave Surface a sort of Villosity wrinkled and mamillated. 1801Bournon ibid. XCI. 172 This ore frequently assumes a mamillated form. 1823W. Phillips Introd. Mineral. (ed. 3) p. lxxxv, A mineral presenting aggregations of large sections of numerous small globes is termed botryoidal; but when the globes are larger, and the portions are less, and separate, the appearance is expressed by the term mamillated. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. iii. (1879) 46 The mammillated country of Maldonado. 1865Geikie Scen. & Geol. Scot. vii. 176 The rocks are worn into smooth mammillated outlines. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 920 This a merely mammillated or corrugated surface will not do.
2. Having a nipple-shaped process or part.
1839Sowerby Conch. Man. 62 Mammillated, a term applied to the apex of a shell when it is rounded like a teat. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca 119 Spire short, apex mammillated. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. v. 156 The cases from the pistacias are..mammelated, light, with a turpentine flavour. |