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ampulla of milk duct (medicine)


ampulla of milk duct -->
lactiferous sinus


A circumscribed spindle-shaped dilation of the lactiferous duct just before it enters the nipple. In nursing mothers this dilatation stores a droplet of milk which is expressed by compression as the infant begins to suckle; this is thought to encourage continual suckling while the let-down reflex ensues.

Synonym: sinus lactiferi, ampulla lactifera, ampulla of milk duct, lactiferous ampulla.


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having a frightening or unfriendly appearance
forbidding place/land/landscape etc
::We sailed past the island's rather dark and forbidding cliffs.
::His face was forbidding, even hostile.
-- forbiddingly adv