Sentences with phrase «lactiferous sinuses»

To get enough milk, the baby must therefore take enough of the breast into her mouth so as to empty the lactiferous sinuses with her tongue.

As the baby continues to suckle, the mother produces another hormone that helps the milk to come down from the alveoli to the dilated milk ducts (lactiferous sinuses which lie under the areola — the circular dark skin around the nipple).

Although the duct diameter was increased at multiple branch points, the typical saclike appearance of lactiferous sinuses under the areola was not observed during scanning.

These lactiferous sinuses drain to 15 - 25 openings in the nipple, allowing milk to flow to the recipient infant.

The compression of the lactiferous sinus area helps to start the flow of milk forward through the multiple openings at the nipple.

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The myoepithelial cells can contract, similar to muscle cells, and thereby push the milk from the alveoli through the lactiferous ducts toward the nipple, where it collects in widenings (sinuses) of the ducts.