mammaryadj.n.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 157 The Mammarie or Pap-veines and Arteries.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mammary Vessels, the Arteries and Veins that pass thro' the Muscles and Glands, or Kernels of the Breasts.

1795 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 230 The mammary branches run superficially under the false belly till they reach the mammæ.

1826 Lancet 27 May 287/1 Mr. Vincent removed a scirrhous breast... The whole of the mammary gland was not removed.

1834 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 334 The pressure of the young as these increase in size during their mammary or marsupial existence.

1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 535 The women..are remarkable for the same mammary exuberance.

1862 H. W. Fuller On Dis. Chest 4 The mammary [region] is bounded above by the third rib.

1892 J. A. Thomson Outl. Zool. 566 The mammary glands in the female Ornithorhynchus open on a flat patch.

1949 V. Nabokov in Partisan Rev. Sept. 886 Gulfs of voluptuous blue were expanding between great clouds..among the outlines of which one could distinguish a mammary allusion or the death mask of a poet.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1380/2 Mammary development is dependent on endogenous progesterone.

1990 Alert Diver May 10/3 Bubble formation in mammary implants leading to a volume increase of several per cent might occur after recreational diving.

2000 Times 10 Jan. 39/8 Dolly, a Finn-Dorset [ewe] named after the singer Dolly Parton (because of the mammary connection) was born on July 5, 1996.

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 44 There is a species of sarcomatous tumour..which so strikingly resembles the mammary gland in colour and texture, that..I have named it Mammary Sarcoma.

1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 466 Below are small mammary projections about to be the outlets to the cysts beneath them.

1834 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 658/1 If..it be uniformly throughout the texture of an organ, so as to transform it into a substance resembling a section of the mammary gland, or the udder of the cow when boiled, the appellation of mammary sarcoma was given to it by Mr. Abenethy.

1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Mammary sarcoma, an old name for one of the denser varieties of sarcoma..from its resemblance on section to a portion of mammary gland.

1697 T. Gibson Anat. Humane Bodies (ed. 5) i. iv. 21 It has Arteries and Veins from the Mammary, and Epigastrick, and from those of the Midriff, or the Phrenick.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 15/1 This artery..terminates by anastomosing with the internal mammary.

1864 C. Heath Pract. Anat. iv. 390 The venæ comites of the internal mammary unite to open into the brachio-cephalic vein.

1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. No. 2097 (Epitome) 38 The third left rib was resected, the internal mammary ligatured.

1953 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 45 887 Two were found to have widely patent internal mammary coronary anastomoses.

1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xix. 318 (in figure) Main blood vessels of the human circulatory system..Arteries..Thyro-cervical trunk..Internal mammary..Celiac..[etc.].

1992 Mayo Clinic Proc. 67 317 More patients received internal mammary grafts during the second half of the study.

1947 J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus i. 5 A visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries.

1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds i. 8 Her quite magnificent mammaries pointed upwards, gazing sightlessly at the ceiling.

1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 June 719/3 Most of the women Harnforth comes into contact with aren't much more than mobile mammaries. All that stands out about them is their breasts.

1985 B. McConville & J. Shearlaw Slanguage of Sex 175/1 Do you think she should be jogging? It might damage the mammaries.

1990 Sky Mag. Apr. 45/2 Kurt Russell is Cash, a rougher cop but with equally large mammaries.

1997 Orton's Up against It in Independent 16 Aug. ii. 1/3 You don't like it when I straddle you and wave my magnificent mammaries in your face?