How to Use mammary gland in a Sentence

mammary gland

noun

• Mammals are a class of animals so named because their young are kept alive with milk produced by the mammary glands of the females.
  — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• The most common carrier is a rodent of the Mastomys species, 4 to 7 inches long and with 24 mammary glands.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
• But her initial studies of mice proved disappointing — their left and right mammary glands didn’t seem to differ at all.
  — Tim Vernimmen, Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017
• Colostrum is a nutrient-dense substance produced in the mammary glands of mammals within the first few days after giving birth.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
• The team’s method involved removing the nucleus from a Scottish Blackface sheep’s egg cell and electroshocking it with a mammary gland cell from a Finn Dorset sheep to enable the two to fuse.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
• While mammals feed their young milk from their mammary glands, birds possess no such gland, WorldAtlas explains.
  — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
• Colostrum is the first nourishment expressed from the mammary glands of a mammal, immediately and up to a few days after giving birth.
  — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2024
• As estrogen decreases, mammary glands shrink and breasts tend to lose firmness, according to Penn Medicine.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 15 Mar. 2023
• Researchers had discovered antibodies against H5N1 in a slice of a mammary gland.
  — Amy Maxmen | Kff Health News, ABC News, 24 May 2024
• Years later, after her recovery, Ramsdell decided to leave the heart behind and to start looking for asymmetry in the mammary glands of mammals.
  — Tim Vernimmen, Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017
• During a routine, two-day visit in August of that year, inspectors noted that one female beagle had an orange-sized mass on her mammary gland.
  — Lizzie Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
• The study, a preprint that hasn’t yet been through peer review by a scientific journal, found that tissue from the mammary gland contains abundant receptors of the kind to which avian flu viruses like H5N1 can attach.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 6 May 2024
• And yes, new moms should be aware that underwired bras can pose the risk of pressing against the lymphatic system and causing mastitis — a painful inflammation of mammary glands—in some people, according to Sena.
  — Courtney Leiva, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
• Unfortunately, cancer in the mammary glands (similar to breast cancer in humans) can also occur in both male and female dogs.
  — Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
• When milk fat is secreted from the mammary gland, it’s packaged in a triple-layer membrane made of phospholipids, cholesterol and a multitude of proteins (including lactoferrin).
  — Alice Callahan, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2019
• This work is from observational studies in people and the ability of these chemicals to cause mammary gland tumors in animal studies.
  — Linda S. Birnbaum and Margaret L. Kripke, STAT, 21 Nov. 2020
• The chances of a tumor being cancerous increases with age, so pay special attention to any abnormalities in your older pup’s mammary glands.
  — Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
• Colostrum is the fluid created by mammary glands after pregnancy and before breastfeeding.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• However, only about 50 percent of mammary tumors are cancerous, with a majority of these cases being carcinoma (arising from the lining of the ducts in the mammary gland), Wustefeld-Janssens said.
  — Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
• Canadian scientists infected ferret pups with H1N1 and allowed them to nurse; their mothers developed infection in their mammary glands.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 9 May 2024
• Investigators are accepting both normal and cancerous feline mammary gland tissue samples from female cats.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024