(n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.
(n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 20.2% of the cases with carcinoma the tumor cells showed peculiar intracytoplasmic inclusions, whereas in only 0.43% of the biopsies of the mamma without carcinoma such inclusions were to be found.
(2) It is considered that foetal maturity is the pre-requisite before a decision to induce should be made in practice, and 3 criteria are essential: 1) a gestational length of greater than 320 days, 2) substantial mammary development, 3) the presence of colostrum in the mammae.
(3) EPM-1 was detectable on the cell surface of cultured human cell lines of the pancreas, liver, colon, and mamma.
(4) Lactose biosynthesis and relevant enzymatic activity in rabbit mamma ry tissue during various stages of pregnancy and lactation are investigated by using a tissue-slice incubation method in order to understand the temporal relationships.
(5) In 352 patients affected with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL) the authors simultaneously detected a solid second tumour 22 times (= 6.22%) (6 cancers of the prostrate, 5 cancers of the skin, 4 cancers of the uterus, 2 cancers of the stomach, 2 cancers of the lung, one case of rectal and mamma cancer each and one case of eye sarcoma).
(6) 4, inguinal) growth was assessed by analysis of mammae wet weight, dry fat free weight, DNA content and mammae whole mount evaluation.
(7) Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders performed a parody of the smash hit Mamma Mia!
(8) Thus, altogether 5089 mammae could be cytologically explored.
(9) Duplicate examinations were carried out on 122 patients in order to compare the results of mammography using a grid technique (Diagnost U. Müller) with a film-screen systemadn also a conventional set without screens (Mamma-Diagnost, Müller).
(10) Histamine (HA) level and its metabolism in adenocarcinoma mammae, spontaneously growing cancer in C3H mice, were examined in relation to the type of tumor, intensity of tumor vascularization and the presence or absence of a secretory function.
(11) Cooperation with a mamma centre is discussed in case extended diagnosis of breast findings is required, or in case it becomes necessary to mark any non-palpable changes.
(12) Basic examination (palpation and mammography) as well as triple diagnosis (sonography, aspiration cytology, pneumocystography) are employed in the diagnosis and therapy of mamma cysts.
(13) The pregnant queens were spayed and their mammae returned to normal; in the other cats the affected mammary glands were removed surgically.
(14) The brand’s most famous material is black lace, inspired by Sicilian widow’s weeds, but the Dolce & Gabbana woman is both a mamma and a vamp.
(15) Immunomorphologic study of 29 breast cancer cases using monoclonal antibodies to proteins of intermediate filaments shown to differentiate the lining epithelium from myoepithelium in the non-proliferating epithelial structures of the mamma, has shown the cells in the majority of tumours (according to the International WHO Classification defined as infiltrating ductal, lobular, and tubular cancer forms) to contain prekeratin (PK) C12, specific for normal lining epithelium, but not for the myoepithelium.
(16) Absolute contraindications of OCs include thromboembolytic diseases, severe cardiovascular system diseases, liver disorders, cirrhosis, cerebral vascular diseases, grave diabetes, jaundice, and malignant tumors of the mammae and sexual organs.
(17) In this article a case of a female patient is described who developed not only a radiation-induced osteosarcoma but also a thyroid gland carcinoma after a previous postsurgical mamma carcinoma whereby the irradiation dose of the radiation sarcoma is about 64 Gy and for the thyroid gland carcinoma about 12 Gy.
(18) Friend erythroleukemia cells (ED50: 0.7 microM), human mamma carcinoma cells (ED50: 0.3 microM) and human colon carcinoma cells (ED50: 3.0 microM) in vitro.
(19) The critical attitude towards the additional chemotherapy of the mamma carcinoma is justified by the results of 453 patients submitted to post-operative irradiations.
(20) Some medical centres treat carcinoma of the mamma successfully with progestins.
Mum
Definition:
(a.) Silent; not speaking.
(interj.) Be silent! Hush!
(n.) Silence.
(n.) A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
Example Sentences:
(1) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
(2) The outstanding morphologic feature of cortical cells exposed to microunit ACTH concentrations for 40 min was the abundance of electron-dense granules (0.2-0.4 mum).
(3) This inclusion, an aggregate 0.3-0.7 mum in size, consists of small membrane-bounded vesicles with a single dense granule associated with other non-membrane bound small dense droplets.
(4) Saturation kinetics typical of a carrier-mediated transport system (Kt = 870 muM)were observed, and concentration of fatty acids against a gradient was achieved.
(5) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(6) Km values for each substrate were: pregnenolone 10 muM, 17alpha-hydroxypregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone 2.5 muM and androstenediol 3.0 muM.
(7) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
(8) I met a mum there who said to me – this is what I’ve dreamed of for my child... ...proper uniforms, high standards... ...this is going to give my child a good start in life.
(9) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
(10) The type I neurons (27 X 43 mum) with four to seven primary dendrites were located mainly in the rostral and ventral areas of the LH.
(11) Heavy tracks have LET values in excess of 4 keV mum-1 in water.
(12) sp., from Chalcophaps i. indica, has three or four testes, and a cirrus pouch 93 to 108 mum long, 28 to 45 mum wide, and its egg capsules are 10 to 12 mum long, seven to nine mum wide, each containing four to six eggs.
(13) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(14) If the ionophore (10 muM) is perifused for 5 min at low extracellular calcium and magnesium, and physiologic calcium is then added, a sudden spike of insulin release occurs in the absence of cyclic AMP generation.
(15) This week, after much soul-searching, she is packing up her house to move to Shropshire so that “my mum can look after me”.
(16) I'm having a civil partnership ceremony in six weeks and don't know whether to invite my mum.
(17) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
(18) When deformability was measured by filtration through 3-mum polycarbonate sieves, marked decreases in deformability were found in complement-coated erythrocytes.
(19) Short segments of portions of taenia coli of the guinea-pig averaging 54 mum X 219 mum X ca.
(20) Smooth muscle cells of taeniae fixed under 1 gram load were about 515 mum long.