What's the difference between breast and mammillary?
Breast
Definition:
(n.) A torus.
(n.) The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
(n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.
(n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.
(n.) The face of a coal working.
(n.) The front of a furnace.
(n.) The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.
(n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.
(v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
Example Sentences:
(1) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(2) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(3) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(4) Breast temperatures have been measured by the automated instrumentation called the 'Chronobra' for 16 progesterone cycles in women at normal risk for breast cancer and for 15 cycles in women at high risk for breast cancer.
(5) In contrast, human breast milk contained substantially increased levels of immunoreactive PTHrP.
(6) Early detection of breast cancer is the major indication, and mammography is the single best test for this task.
(7) PAF was found in almost all carcinoma, although it was not detected in most of the matched, nontumor breast tissue samples.
(8) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
(9) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
(10) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.
(11) 10 women in the study developed carcinoma in the same or opposite breast within 16-20 years, a rate of incidence 480% greater than among the general population of women of the same age.
(12) The ability of ligand to stimulate its own synthesis and that of its receptor suggests the presence of an autocrine positive feedback loop, however we were unable to break this loop in the breast cancer cells by antibodies that blocked the interaction of TGF alpha with the EGF receptor.
(13) The most frequent primary tumours were: carcinoma of the breast (37%), lung (25%), kidney (16%), rectum (9%).
(14) Zinc alpha-2 glycoprotein (ZnGP) was measured in human breast microcysts, breast secretions, breast cyst fluid and serum.
(15) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(16) After an introductory note on primary preventive intervention of breast cancer during adulthood, the author defends and extends a hypothesis that relates most of the known risk factors for this disease to the development of preneoplastic lesions in the breast.
(17) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
(18) Advanced breast cancer responds to a range of cytotoxic agents, but resistance always develops.
(19) The concentration of potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) was measured in breast cyst fluid (BCF) from 611 cysts greater than 3 ml aspirated in 520 women with gross cystic disease of the breast.
(20) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
Mammillary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.
(a.) Composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labelled perikarya were seen in the region of the ipsilateral medial forebrain bundle, consistently rostral to the caudal edge of the posterior mammillary nucleus.
(2) This increase is more intense in the mammillary nuclei than in the thalamic ones.
(3) The regional changes in glucose utilization induced by U-50,488H in the brain were most pronounced in components of the limbic forebrain circuit such as the anterior thalamic nuclei, mammillary body, frontal cortex, lateral septal nucleus, nucleus accumbens and lateral habenular nucleus as well as in the brainstem tegmental nuclei and the dorsal and median raphe nucleus (components of the limbic midbrain area).
(4) Groups of stained neurons were observed in the periphery of ventro- and dorsomedial, lateral and mammillary nuclei of the hypothalamus.
(5) On day 19 the subfornical organ, mammillary nuclei and the central nucleus of the amygdala, and on day 21 the periaqueductal gray and the interpeduncular nucleus became invaded by GnRH axons.
(6) The mammillary bodies are already shaped in the last stages of the fetal development, and you can differentiate clearly in them the medial mammillary nucleus (MMN) and lateral mammillary nucleus (LMN).
(7) TRH binding site concentration was moderate in the ventromedial nucleus and the medial preoptic area, whereas we observed low densities in the periventricular, paraventricular and mammillary nuclei.
(8) In contrast to results for lateral septum, recordings from medial and lateral mammillary nuclei indicate only small, diffuse excitation that exhibits no consistent changes over training, and is not related to activity seen in hippocampal or septal regions.
(9) Subcortical projections to the anterior thalamic nuclei were studied in the rat, with special reference to projections from the mammillary nuclei, by retrograde and anterograde transport of wheat germ agglutinin conjugated to horseradish peroxidase.
(10) The limbic system showed decrements in the medial cortex and hippocampal dentate gyrus (outer blade) and the lateral habenula, while there was stimulation in the mammillary body and the basolateral amygdaloid nucleus.
(11) Bradycardia was evoked in rabbits anaesthetized with chloralose-urethane by electrical stimulation (200 or 300 microA, 1 ms, 60 s-1 for 9 s, repeated every 5 min) of a selected point in the caudal hypothalamus 1.5 mm from the midline dorsal to the mammillary bodies.
(12) In the present information the course of fibre pathways which are connected with the mammillary body of the cattle is described in 14 series of brains (6 frontal, 4 sagittal, 4 horizontal series, stained by the combined cell-fibre-method after KLUVER and BARRERA and by the method for myelined fibres after HEIDENHAIN).
(13) Two model structures, mammillary and catenary, were fitted to the data.
(14) In thiamine deficiency, nimodipine significantly raised LCpH in 5 of 17 structures evaluated, two of which, the medial dorsal nucleus of the thalamus and the mammillary body, are vulnerable to the development of histological lesions in this condition.
(15) In addition, sparse immunoreactive cell bodies were displayed in the paraventricular and medial mammillary nuclei.
(16) However, based on the selective labelling of neurons of this nucleus by the [3H]thymidine ARG technique, our results clearly show that a germinative zone lying caudally along the dorsal aspect of the mammillary recess is responsible for the formation of the neurons of the subthalamic nucleus.
(17) There were high concentrations of binding found over the accumbens nucleus, the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis, ventral caudate putamen, median eminence, the arcuate nucleus, lateral amygdaloid nucleus and lateral mammillary nucleus, the superior and inferior colliculi, pontine nuclei, molecular and Purkinje cell layers of the cerebellar cortex, the nucleus of the solitary tract, the inferior olivary nuclei, hypoglossal complex and the vestibular and cochlear nuclei.
(18) Mammillary fistulae developed more frequently in current smokers (P less than 0.03).
(19) The triple-decked and sequentially produced components of the mammillary system may arise from separate neuroepithelial sites.
(20) Moderate to strong hybridization was found in the dorsal thalamic nuclei, layers II and VI of the cerebral cortex, the anterior olfactory nucleus and primary olfactory cortex, the hypothalamic mammillary nuclei, the subthalamus, and the granule and mitral cells of the olfactory bulb.