Mammary

Definition: Mammary

Mammary

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female.

Date "mammary" was first used: 1682. (references)

Etymology: Mammary \Mam"ma*ry\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression mammaire.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Mammary

Domain	Definitions
Health	Pertaining to the mamma, or breast. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Mammary

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
MAGIC	English	Mammary Gland Information Core	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: Mammary

English words defined with "mammary": amastia ♦ bag ♦ class Mammalia ♦ galactocele, Galactophorous ♦ lactation, lactiferous duct, lactogenic hormone, luteotropin ♦ mamilla, Mammalia, mammary gland, mammilla, milk, Milk knot ♦ nipple ♦ pap, prolactin ♦ teat, tit ♦ udder. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mammary": Antigens, CD36 ♦ Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating, Coronary Artery Bypass ♦ gynaecomastia ♦ Internal Mammary-Coronary Artery Anastomosis ♦ Lipoprotein Lipase ♦ Mammary Arteries, Mammary Neoplasms, Mammary Tumor Viruses, Mouse, Mason-Pfizer Monkey Virus, Mastectomy, Extended Radical, Milk Ejection, Minor Lymphocyte Stimulatory Antigens, Minor Lymphocyte Stimulatory Loci ♦ Nipples, Nitracrine ♦ Phyllodes Tumor, Progestational Hormones, Prototheca ♦ Raloxifene, Receptors, Oxytocin, Receptors, Prolactin, Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic, Retroviruses Type B, Mammalian, Retroviruses Type D ♦ Thoracic Arteries, Toremifene ♦ Ultrasonography, Mammary. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mammary

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Anyone could take over the place with the right set of mammary glands. (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon)
Movie/TV Titles	The Adventures of Mammary Man (2001) Mammary Manor (1991)
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Commercial Usage: Mammary

Domain	Title
Books	Biology of the Mammary Gland (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 480) (reference) Mammary Development in Cancer (Biochemical Society Symposia, Vol 63) (reference) Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (reference) Physiology of Mammary Glands (reference) The Mammary Gland: Development, Regulation, and Function (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Mammary

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In most instances, suture reapproximation of mammary tissue should be avoided. (references)
		Progesterone, which resembles estrogen chemically, helps regulate changes that occur during menstruation and influences the development of fetal membranes and mammary glands during pregnancy. (references)
		Kennedy syndrome or progressive spinobulbar muscular atrophy may occur between 15 and 60 years of age. Features of this type may include weakness of the facial and tongue muscles, dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), dysarthria (speech impairment), and gynecomastia (excessive development of male mammary glands). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mammary

"Mammary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Mammary" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	75%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	12.5%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	12.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Mammary

Expressions using "mammary": mammary abscess ♦ Mammary Arteries ♦ mammary gland ♦ mammary glands ♦ Mammary Neoplasms. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mammary

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
mammary	50
mammary gland	50
mammary cancer	16
mammary memory	9
duct ectasia mammary	8
mammary artery	3
mammary retractor	3
gland involution mammary	2
mammary tumor	2
cancer feline mammary	2
development gland human mammary	2
cancer dog in mammary	2
artery internal mammary	2
gland human mammary	2
cow gland mammary	2
pagets disease mammary	2
gland male mammary	2
check mammary	2
free game mammary	2
mammary lane	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Mammary

Language		Translations for "mammary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		乳房 (Breast, udder). (various references)

Czech		prsní žláza (mammary gland). (various references)

Danish		mammær, bryst- (breast). (various references)

Dutch		mammair. (various references)

Farsi		مربوطبه پستانداران , مربوطبه پستان . (various references)

Finnish		mammarius, maitorauhas-, nisä-. (various references)

French		mammaire. (various references)

German		Brust... (pectoral, thoracic). (various references)

Greek		μαστικόσ, μαστικός. (various references)

Italian		mammario. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		乳腺 (mammary gland). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		にゅうせ�" (chosen, mammary gland, ship's arrival). (various references)

Manx		keeaghagh (big-chested). (various references)

Pig Latin		ammarymay

Portuguese		mamologia, mamário. (various references)

Romanian		glande mamare (mammary glands). (various references)

Russian		грудной (pectoral, sucking, thoracic), относящийся к грудной/молочной железе. (various references)

Spanish		mamario. (various references)

Swedish		mjölkådra (lacteal vein, mammary vein, milk vein), bröstkarcinom (mammary cancer, mastitis carcinosa, mastitoides carcinoma), bröstkörtel (mammary gland), bröstcancer (mammary cancer, mastitis carcinosa, mastitoides carcinoma), bröstböld (mammary abscess). (various references)

Thai		เกี่ยวกับเต้านม (ของทั้งคนและสัตว์). (various references)

Ukranian		грудний (chesty, pectoral, sucking), молочний (deciduous, lacteal, lactescent, lactic, milch, milky). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mammary

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	mamma, mammarius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Mammary

Misspellings
	"Mammary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hammarbys, Jamarj, Maamar, Maamur, makmur, mamady, mamar, Mamarev, mamary, mamay, Mammari, Mammern, mammery, mammory, mamory, Mamyrin, Mannari, Marmaris, Maxmara, Mimar, Mingary. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mammary"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mammary" (pronounced ma"merē)
3	-m er ē	armory, creamery, Emery, Infirmary, memory, summary.
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Anagrams: Mammary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-m-m-m-r-y"
	-2 letters: mamma, mammy, rammy.
	-3 letters: army, maar, mama, maya, raya.
	-4 letters: ama, arm, mar, may, ram, ray, rya, yam, yar.
	-5 letters: aa, am, ar, ay, ma, mm, my, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-m-m-m-r-y"
	+3 letters: mammillary.
	+4 letters: mammography.
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