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What is the function of the human female breast not human mammary glands?
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∙ 16y ago
There is no other function that I know of, other than perhaps to attract males.
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What is the function of the lactiferous ducts?
Each breast contains a cluster of alveoli or sacs in which milk is produced. The alveoli release the milk into ducts, which work like pipes to take the milk to the nipples Mammary glands produce milk in mammals.
Which two body organ systems do the mammary glands belong to?
anatomical positions what is mammary
What glands are not regulated by the pituitary?
Mammary glands, sweat glands, salivary glands.
What is the tissue of the gland?
Mammary gland consist of glandular tissue and fatty tissue in them. Mammary glands are characteristic of mammals.
What tissues make up the breasts?
The breasts are complex organs, the function of which are to stimulate the sexual drive in the sexual partner, and later to nourish the newborn child. They, as mentioned, are quite complex in their anatomy, and are comprised of overlying skin, the areola and nipple, which is specialized erectile tissue. Underneath the skin, the breast is divided into lobules by fibrous bands of tissue. Within each lobule is mostly fatty tissue, however this is also the location of the mammary glands, which if you're not nursing are less than an inch in diameter, which are connected to the nipple by mammary ducts. Is is the mammary glands that swell during and after pregnancy and excrete milk.
Can you milk your toe?
No, the toe lacks the mammary glands that the female breast contains.
What is a booby?
a large (or small) lump on a female's chest
Mammary glands are?
Are glands of the breast that produces milk.
What are mammary glands?
Are glands of the breast that produces milk.
What is lacation?
LACTATION is the process in which mammary glands in female mammals produce milk.
How many pairs of mammary glands in female cats?
Cats have four pairs of mammary glands for a total of 8 mammary glands.
What animals have hair and mammary glands?
Mammals (both male and female) have hair and mammary glands.
What is Cow's milking gland?
Cows produce milk in their udders, which are scientifically known as the mammary glands - similar to a human female's breast.
What do you call animals with mammary glands?
All mammals (both male and female) are characterised by having mammary glands.
What glands on a female mammal produce milk?
Mammary glands, of course.
Glands that produce milk during lactation?
The milk producing glands of the breast are called mammary glands.
What type of gland is a mammary gland?
Mammary glands are the source of milk production in female (and some male) mammals
