mammary gland

English

Noun

mammary gland (plural mammary glands)

1. (anatomy) A gland that secretes milk for suckling an infant or offspring.

Synonyms

• (standard): breast, dug, udder (usually referring to an animal's mammary gland)
• (somewhat taboo slang, usually used of a woman's mammary gland): boob, hooter, jug, knocker, melon, tit

Hypernyms

• gland

Translations

milk-secreting gland

• Arabic: غدد ثديية
• Azerbaijani: süd vəziləri
• Belarusian: мало́чная жалеза́ f (malóčnaja žaljezá)
• Bulgarian: мле́чна жлеза́ f (mléčna žlezá)
• Catalan: glàndula mamària f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳腺 (zh) (rǔxiàn)

• Crimean Tatar: süt bezi
• Czech: mléčná žláza f
• Danish: mælkekirtel c
• Dutch: melkklier (nl) f
• Esperanto: laktoglando
• Finnish: maitorauhanen (fi)
• French: glande mammaire f
• Georgian: სარძევე ჯირკვალი (sarʒeve ǯirḳvali)
• German: Milchdrüse (de) f
• Greek: μαστικός αδένας m (mastikós adénas), μαζικός αδένας m (mazikós adénas)
• Hebrew: בלוטת חלב (he)
• Hindi: स्तन ग्रंथि (stan granthi)
• Hungarian: emlőmirigy (hu)
• Icelandic: mjólkurkirtill
• Indonesian: kelenjar susu (id)
• Irish: faireog bhainne f, faireog mhamach f
• Italian: ghiandola mammaria f
• Japanese: 乳腺 (ja) (にゅうせん, nyūsen)
• Korean: 젖샘 (jeotsaem)
• Latvian: piena dziedzeris
• Lithuanian: pieno liauka f
• Macedonian: мле́чна жле́зда f (mléčna žlézda)
• Maori: repe waiū
• Marathi: स्तन ग्रंथी (stan granthī)
• Navajo: abeʼ astseʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: melkekjertel m

• Persian: غده شیری
• Polish: gruczoł mlekowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: glândula mamária f
• Romanian: glandă mamară (ro) f
• Russian: моло́чная железа́ (ru) f (molóčnaja železá)
• Slovene: mlečna žleza f
• Spanish: glándula mamaria f
• Swedish: mjölkkörtel (sv) c
• Tagalog: katasang-suso
• Tamil: பாற்சுரப்பி (pāṟcurappi)
• Thai: ต่อมน้ำนม (tom nam noam)
• Turkish: meme bezi (tr)
• Ukrainian: моло́чна за́лоза́ f (molóčna zálozá)
• Uzbek: sut bezlari f
• Vietnamese: tuyến vú
• Volapük: dög (vo)
• Welsh: chwarren laeth f

See also

• Wikipedia article on the mammary gland