the.com/mammary gland
The only organ that builds itself twice and feeds another human from scratch.
means The specialized gland in the breast that produces and secretes milk to nourish offspring.
from From Latin 'mamma,' meaning breast — a word so basic it's practically a baby sound, echoed across languages (compare 'mama'). 'Mammary' entered English in the 1700s as the clinical adjective, and 'mammal' comes from the same root, since the defining trait of the whole class is literally this: creatures that feed their young from the body itself.
- origin
- Modified sweat glands, not muscle or fat
- milk factory
- Alveoli cells die and shed into milk itself
- same tissue
- Men have them too, just dormant
- evolutionary age
- Predates placentas by tens of millions of years