The pectoral mammae seem to be inadequately developed, with the result that in exceptionally large litters of five, six or seven young, usually no more than four survive.
September 21 the anterior pair are about twice as far apart as the posterior pair; each of the mammae appears no more than a couple of inches from the one nearest to it.
The four rudimentary mammae in a male fawn of arcticus (No.
In all the Manatidae the mammae of the female, which are greatly distended during the period of lactation, are situated very differently from those of the whales, being just beneath the pectoral fins.
The tail was like that of a dog-fish; the mammae were about as large as those of a woman; the mouth and lips were very distinct, and resembled the human.
The number of mammae vary, as does the period of gestation.
Borellus remarks that he knew of a woman of ordinary size, each of whose mammae weighed about 30 pounds, and she supported them in bags hung about her neck.
He had three sons with accessory mammae on the right side and two daughters with the same anomaly on the left side.
Cases of functional male mammae will be discussed in Chapter IX.
Bartholinus (quoted by Meckel) and Manget also mention mammae on the back, but Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire questions their existence.
Lee mentions a woman of thirty-five with four mammae and four nipples; she suckled with the pectoral and not the axillary breasts.
Obesity may be partial, as seen in the mammae or in the abdomen of both women and men, or it may be general; and it is of general obesity that we shall chiefly deal.
Her menses ceased; her mammae became engorged and discharged a serous lactescent fluid; her belly enlarged, and both she and her physician felt fetal movements in her abdomen.
Rouxeau describes amenorrhea in a girl of seventeen, who menstruated from the breast; and Teufard reports a case in which there was reestablishment of menstruation by the mammae at the age of fifty-six.
Her mammae were well developed, her nipples erectile and surrounded by a brown areola, from which issued several hairs.
There was a third leg attached to a continuation of the processus coceygeus of the sacrum, and in addition to well developed mammae regularly situated, there were two rudimentary ones close together above the pubes.
Her mammae were engorged with a lactescent fluid, and she felt belly-movements like those of a child; but during all this time she had regular menstruation.
The left leg was shorter than the right and congenitally smaller; the mammae were of normal dimensions.
Fournier speaks of an individual in Lisbon in 1807 who was in the highest degree graceful, the voice feminine, the mammae well developed, The female genitalia were normal except the labia majora, which were rather diminutive.
Leichtenstern, however, whose investigations were of earlier date than those of Bruce, says that supernumerary mammae occur with about equal frequency in the two sexes.
The mammae enlarge, the ovarian vesicles become dilated, and there is established a periodical discharge of one or more ova, accompanied, in most cases, by a sanguineous fluid from the cavity of the uterus.
The first product of the mammae is not the proper milk secretion, but is a yellowish fluid called colostrum .
Another adult female trapped in the same place, July 22, had two pairs of inguinal mammae, but no abdominal mammae were found.
It is well known that in the males of all mammals, including man, rudimentary mammae exist.
She was only twelve years of age, and small of stature, but themammae were considerably developed.
The nerves of the mammae are the anterior and middle cutaneous branches of the intercostals; and they are not unfrequently affected with neuralgia, which is sometimes very severe and intractable.
In the prairie vole one pair of mammae is pectoral and two pairs are abdominal.
The prairie vole has fewer mammae (three pairs) than some other voles in North America, and might, therefore, be expected to have smaller litters.
Usually a lactating vole showed evidence of only the abdominal mammae having been in use.
The females have themammae situated on the breast.
The mammaeare four in number, two on the breast and two on the abdomen.
The mammae of the Anthropoidea are always situated on the breast.
The females produce one or two, nearly naked, young at a birth, the mammae being either two or four in number.
Eleven of these had no embryos, but six have mammae that are still prominent on the dried skins and may have had litters prior to their capture.
Eight mammae are evident and show the animal to have been nursing young.
The condition of the mammae in the type specimen of M.
Note the five pairs of mammae characteristic of weasels, and the uneven arrangement of mammae of the two sides which is also common among weasels.
Seven mammae are evident and show the animal to have been nursing young.
Inguinal mammae are distinctly shown on the skin and prove that the specimen is a female.
The enlarged mammae on the dried skin substantiate the statement that the female was nursing young.
The two portions of the mammae should be well detached.
It is in this view of the nutritive system and the characteristics which render it beautiful, and especially after this portion of it which regards the organs and functions of secretion, that the mammae and their beauty should be considered.
In persons above the common stature, there is almost half a face more in the part of the body which is between the mammaeand the bifurcation of the trunk.
As, in pregnancy and suckling, the abdomen and mammae necessarily expand, and as they would afterward collapse and become wrinkled, were not a certain degree of plumpness acquired, that acquisition is essential to beauty in mothers.
So also is the measure from the centre of one mammae to that of the other, as equal to the distance from each to the pit over the breast-bone.
He even regarded themammae as glandular bodies in this sense, although he knew, of course, the value of their secretion.
The mammae are thoracic; the placenta discoidal and deciduate.
It also differs from the Centetidae in having only two inguinal mammaeinstead of both inguinal and thoracic; the penis of the male does not project from a cloaca, but lies forward.
There are two pairs of mammae instead of only one; these are upon the breast and abdomen.
In addition to the pectoral mammae they have two teat-like processes situated abdominally.
When only a few young are produced at a time the mammae are few, and it seems to depend on the convenience of suckling in which part of the mammary line the glands are developed.
In the pouched Mammals (Monotremes and Marsupials) inguinal mammae are found, and so they are in most Ungulates as well as in the Cetacea.
In the monotremes the mammae are looked upon, not as modified sebaceous glands, as in other Mammals, but as altered sweat glands.
The areoles or tufts on the tops of the mammae are large, and the spines are about seven in number, ½ in.
In the axils of the mammaeare tufts of white wool.
The stem is ridged with rows of fleshy mammae or tubercles, which are curiously humped, and each bears a cluster of spreading, brown spines, 1 in.
None of five adult females taken late in June was pregnant or lactating, but three had enlarged mammae indicative of reproductive activity earlier in the spring, to which young of various sizes in our series also attest.
Adult females collected on June 20 and July 7 had enlarged mammae but were no longer lactating.
The tail was like that of the dog-fish: the mammae were about as large as those of a woman; the mouth and lips were very distinct, and resembled the human.
Stout body, short tail, large head and eyes, no cheek pouches, mammae ten to twelve.
The mammae are more numerous than in any other canine--from twelve to fourteen.
Hodgson may have overlooked the pectoral mammae when he noted the number.
The mammae are placed under the abdomen, and are more than two.
The other characteristics of the group are pectoral mammae and hairy moustaches.
Nose and feet flesh-coloured; ears and tail darker and brownish; mammae eight, as usual in the genus.
At no time were her mammae enlarged and she was not lactating or pregnant.
The young would hang onto the mammae and the female would clutch the young to her with all four feet.
Rudimentary organs sometimes retain their potentiality: this occasionally occurs with the mammae of male mammals, which have been known to become well developed and to secrete milk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mammae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
