mamillan.

1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 186 Mammilla, the same that Mamma.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mammilla, a little Breast, Tet, or Dug.

1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Mammillæ, the breasts of men are so termed. It is also applied sometimes to the nipple.

1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 246/2 The nipple or mammilla consists of the common integuments, fascia, milk-tubes, [etc.].

1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Mammilla, the nipple of the mammary gland. Also, the male breast, or mammary gland.

1975 Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica 141 488 The mamilla always lost its sensibility, but the sensibility of the remaining skin of the breast sometimes returned with time.

1993 Arch. Dermatol. 129 1177 There were connate malformations consisting of webbed toes II/III on the right side and a supernumerary left mammilla.

1818 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. 279 In these apodous walkers the place of legs is supplied by fleshy and often retractile mamillæ or tubercles.

1828 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 454 There occurs on the surface of the brain..a sort of whitish mammilla, which seemed to be concealed in the interior of the nerve.

1843 J. J. G. Wilkinson tr. E. Swedenborg Animal Kingdom I. i. 21 Glandular mammillæ or papillæ.

1852 J. S. Henslow Dict. Bot. 104 Mamilla (a little teat). Little granular prominences on the surface of certain pollen.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 714/2 at Mamillaria The mamillæ..have little tufts of white hair between them.

1889 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 45 322 The crystals of others [sc. stones] assume a mamillated form, the mamillæ being covered with minute crystals.

1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Mammillæ, applied to the conical or cylindrical organs of the Arachnida,..Also, the papillæ or apices of the Malpighian pyramids in the kidney.

1935 Poultry Sci. 14 24/1 The shell is now generally considered to be made up of five essential parts; the inner membranes, the mammilla layer, the spongy layer, the cuticle, and the pores.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxvi. 996 There is at one point in the cyst-wall a raised mass or plug of tissue called the dermoid process or mamilla.

1986 Toxicology 42 245 SEM studies of thinned eggshells revealed reduced and tightly clustered mammillae with apparent decrease in intermammillary spaces and signs of inhibition of calcite formation.

1995 Internat. Jrnl. Pharmacognosy 33 47 Commercially available capsules of Herba equiseti... The most valuable diagnostic characters include the distribution pattern of stomata, and microcharacters, such as the size of mamillae.