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- adjective Of, relating to, or on the
mamilla .
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Examples
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Except for the striations on the connecting link, the Irish so-called mamillary fibulæ are almost always plain; but
The Bronze Age in Ireland George Coffey 1886
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Nautilus "(1832), Professor Owen describes" on each side, at the roots of the branchiæ, "" a small mamillary eminence with a transverse slit which conducts from the branchial cavity into the pericardium.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The yellow-flowering gourd, called _penca_, has two kinds or varieties, the common and mamillary, owing to the fruit of the latter having a large nipple-shaped process at the end.
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In the sacral region, these fasciculi arise from the back of the sacrum, as low as the fourth sacral foramen, from the aponeurosis of origin of the Sacrospinalis, from the medial surface of the posterior superior iliac spine, and from the posterior sacroiliac ligaments; in the lumbar region, from all the mamillary processes; in the thoracic region, from all the transverse processes; and in the cervical region, from the articular processes of the lower four vertebræ.
IV. Myology. 6. The Fasciæ and Muscles of the Trunk. a. The Deep Muscles of the Back 1918
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