单词 | mammillary |
释义 | mammillaryadj. Chiefly Science. 1. a. Shaped like or resembling a breast or a nipple. Later also: of or relating to the mammillary body. mammillary body n. either of a pair of small white rounded structures lying between the tuber cinereum and the posterior perforated substance in the interpeduncular fossa on the ventral surface of the hypothalamus. mammillary process n. †(a) (in plural) the olfactory lobes (obsolete); †(b) the mastoid process of the temporal bone (obsolete); (c) the metapophysis of a lumbar or thoracic vertebra. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [adjective] > having a nipple-shaped part or nipple-shaped mammillary1615 mammiform1699 mammoid1774 mammillate1826 mammular1826 mammillated1839 mammilliform1843 mammulose1889 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adjective] > like a breast or nipple mammillar?a1425 teat-like1593 mammillary1615 mammiform1699 mammilliform1843 mammillariform1869 the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > other parts of brain epicranium1603 buttocks of the brain1615 raphe1615 fornix1681 peduncle1707 psalterium1779 mammillary body1828 corona radiata1869 paraphysis1892 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 433 The mamillary processes which are the Organes of smelling. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 16 The bottom of the Ear (in which place the Mammillary processe is). 1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 126/1 It is the Entry to the Sinus in the Mammillary Process. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 39 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) The Mammillary Processes of the Brain. 1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. xiii. 180 The mamillary portion of the kidney. 1828 J. Quain Elements Anat. x. 614 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. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times vii. 230 Small mammillary elevations, which are known as Indian corn-hills. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 39 The anterior process..is termed the mammillary process, or Metapophysis. 1921 F. Tilney & H. A. Riley Form & Functions Central Nerv. Syst. xxxiv. 613 The mammillary body serves as a relay station in the olfactory tract. 1942 O. Larsell Anat. Nerv. Syst. xviii. 249 The mammillary bodies are two elevations..just rostral to the posterior perforated substance. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 807/1 In view of the evidence linking memory functioning with the hippocampal-fornix-mammillary system. 1980 Anatomischer Anzeiger 148 55 The multifidus consists of fibres connecting mamillary and spinous processes. 1990 European Jrnl. Neurosci. 2 556/1 The mamillary region at the caudal end of the hypothalamus encompasses a number of distinct cell groups. 1990 Brain 113 18 Patients with Korsakoff's syndrome..had only mamillary body and midline nuclei damage on gross inspection. b. Geology. Having several smoothly rounded convex surfaces; botryoidal. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [adjective] risingc1425 swelling1544 tumulary18.. mammillary1813 tumular1828 tumulous1897 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > having a protuberance > breast-like mammillary1846 1813 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. App. 355 Mammillary, with a number of convex smooth surfaces. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 202 Sometimes the travertin assumes precisely the botroidal and mammillary forms, common to similar deposits, in Auvergne. 1841 J. Trimmer Pract. Geol. 348 The sides of the cells are coated with mamillary concretions. 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 265 Gibbous and coarsely mammillary. 1981 Earth & Planetary Sci. Lett. 52 285 Each morphological type was dated using the Rb-Sr method in an attempt to test the hypothesis that the mamillary and the lobate glauconite morphologies are more suitable..for radiometric dating. 1994 P. L. Hansley & P. H. Briggs Garnet Dissolution in Oxalic Acid (Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 2106) 1 Most originally smooth surfaces of the grains had been replaced by rounded and pointed mammillary features. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [adjective] > specific shape or form mammillary1862 scaraboid1888 scarabaeoid1889 squash blossom1923 1862 W. R. Wilde Catal. Gold Antiq. Royal 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. 1863 D. Wilson Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. (ed. 2) I. ii. vi. 459 The dilated gold fibulæ, styled..Mammillary Brooches. 2. Of or relating to the nipple or (formerly) the breast; (also) †having mammae (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [adjective] mammary1615 mammillary1669 inframammary1862 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [adjective] > having breasted1571 mammeated1656 mammillary1792 busted1838 mammate1857 mammilliferous1857 mammiferous1869 mammulose1889 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 278 The..milky juyce, passing..through the mammilary conduits into the breasts. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 165 The only mamillary biped which we have, is the Bat. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 981 To the left of the mammillary or mid-thoracic line. 1976 N. C. Chaudhuri Culture in Vanity Bag iii. iii. 118 An egregious mammary and even mamillary ostentation stalks where it ought not. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1615 |
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