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mammary, a.|ˈmæmərɪ|
[f. L. mamma (see mamma2) + -ary1.]
1. Of or belonging to the mamma or breast. Also absol. = mammary artery.
1682T. Gibson Anat. (1697) 21 It has Arteries and Veins from the Mammary, and Epigastrick, and from those of the Midriff, or the Phrenick. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Mammary Vessels, the Arteries and Veins that pass thro' the Muscles and Glands, or Kernels of the Breasts. 1795Home in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 230 The mammary branches run superficially under the false belly till they reach the mammæ. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 831 The mammary gland. 1834Fraser's Mag. X. 535 The women..are remarkable for the same mammary exuberance. 1862H. W. Fuller Dis. Lungs 4 The mammary is bounded above by the third rib. 1901Brit. Med. Jrnl. No. 2097 Epit. Med. Lit. 38 The third left rib was resected, the internal mammary ligatured.
2. Having the form of a mamma. † mammary sarcoma (see quot. 1889).
1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 466 Below are small mammary projections about to be the outlets to the cysts beneath them. 1807–26S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 191 When the tumour is known..to be either a mammary, a tuberculated, or medullary sarcoma, care should be taken [etc.]. 1889Syd. Soc. Lex., Mammary sarcoma, an old name for one of the denser varieties of sarcoma..from its resemblance on section to a portion of mammary gland.
Add:B. n. pl. A woman's breasts; also (rare), those of a man. colloq. (joc.).
a1967J. Orton in Independent (1997) 16 Aug. ii. 1/3 You don't like it when I straddle you and wave my magnificent mammaries in my face? 1976P. Cave High Flying Birds i. 8 Her quite magnificent mammaries pointed upwards, gazing sightlessly at the ceiling. 1981Times 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. 1985McConville & Shearlaw Slanguage of Sex 175/1 Do you think she should be jogging? It might damage the mammaries. 1990Sky Mag. Apr. 45/2 Kurt Russell is Cash, a rougher cop but with equally large mammaries. |