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mamillation|mæmɪˈleɪʃən|
In quots. mammillation.
[f. mamilla + -ation.]
1. The condition of being mamillated.
1856Mayne Expos. Lex., Mammillation. Term applied to the appearances of little prominences like granulations on a mucous surface, as of the stomach sometimes in Phthisis, etc. 1877Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 120 The stomach occasionally presents..mammillation, softening [etc.].
2. concr. in pl. Rounded bosses.
1863A. C. Ramsay Phys. Geog. xxiv. (1878) 382 Smoothing those large mammillations the Cumbraes. 188019th Cent. Nov. 850 The mammillations of the surface suggest that the rocks have been..rounded by the passage of moving ice. |