mammary glands
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These babies even share the mighty boob: breaking a "rule" of mammal biology, naked mole rats do not have just around half as many babies as they have mammary glands.
From Salon • May 11, 2025
The appearance of the virus in mammary glands — in cattle and even in non lactating mice — was also unexpected.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
It is produced by bacteria that live in the mammary glands of cows, but microbes in the human gut produce similar lantibiotics too.
From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2024
“The way the behavior starts is: they knead the mother’s mammary glands to actually suck the milk,” she says.
From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2023
If it is located in the nerves distributed to the mammary glands it gives rise to neuralgia of the mammary gland.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
