It is a glassy substance, usually occurring as thin encrustations with a mammillary surface; occasionally, however, it is earthy and pulverulent.
He described the corpora striata and optic thalami; the four orbicular eminences, with the bridge, which he first named annular protuberance; and the white mammillary eminences, behind the infundibulum.
He recognized the figure of the four eminences in the human subject; he remarked the mammillary bodies; and he discovered the sinus which passes under his name.
A pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct crystals.
Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.
A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebr&ae;; a mammillary process.
Defn: Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.
Defn: A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebræ; a mammillary process.
Defn: A pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct crystals.
A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebræ; a mammillary process.
The ranges on either side of the glen were generally varieties of gneiss and granite, in many of which feldspar predominated, coarse ferruginous sandstone, and a siliceous rock with mammillary hematite and hornblende.
Locality near Adelaide, now showing gold freely in mammillary and dendroidal form.
Stone from West Australia, very glassy looking, now thoroughly impregnated with gold; the mammillary formation being particularly noticeable.
There are other works of a similar shape near by; also some in the form of a cross, mammillary mounds, and parallelograms.
To the eastward commences a series of mammillary mounds, varying from one to two and a half feet in height.
A genus of fossil extinct quadrupeds allied to the elephants; so called from the form of the hind teeth or grinders, which have their surface covered with conical mammillary crests.
The Celtic brooch, with penannular ring and long pin, is apparently the result of fitting a pin to a prehistoric form of fastening for the dress--a penannular ring terminating with knobs, known as a mammillary fibula.
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