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MAMMALIAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk

Synonyms:

mammal; mammalian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mammalian" is a kind of...):

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

Meronyms (parts of "mammalian"):

coat; pelage (growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal)

hair; pilus (any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal)

Domain member category:

allantois (the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals))

chorion (the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals))

amnion; amnios; amniotic sac (thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals))

Amniota (higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) possessing an amnion during development)

biauriculate heart (a heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles)

mount; ride (copulate with)

digitigrade ((of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do))

plantigrade ((of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do))

estrous ((of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat)

anestrous ((of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat)

weaned (freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mammalian"):

female mammal (animals that nourish their young with milk)

tusker (any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar))

prototherian (primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea)

metatherian (primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas)

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

fossorial mammal (a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging)

Holonyms ("mammalian" is a member of...):

class Mammalia; Mammalia (warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female)

Derivation:

mammalian (of or relating to the class Mammalia)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the class Mammalia

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Mammalia (warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female)

Derivation:

mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)

Credits

 Context examples: 

mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) appears to play a central role in signaling caused by nutrients and mitogens such as growth factors to regulate translation.

(mTOR Signaling Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This is typically measured in birds and other non-mammalian vertebrates.

(Nucleated Thrombocyte Count, NCI Thesaurus)

This is typically measured in birds and other non-mammalian verebrates.

(Nucleated Thrombocyte Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The TH receptor expressed in the mammalian CNS and most other tissues (except liver) is encoded by ERBA1.

(Oncogene ERB A, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally bioavailable pan inhibitor of phosphoinositide-3-kinases (PI3K) and inhibitor of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(pan-PI3K/mTOR Inhibitor PQR309, NCI Thesaurus)

Mammalian lamins are classified into two major types, A and B, with two subspecies of each: lamins A and C for the A type and B1 and B2 for the B type.

(Nuclear Lamina, NCI Thesaurus)

Studying the origins, progression, and treatment of cancer in a non-mammalian organism

(Non-Mammalian Organisms as Models for Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

An active metabolite of NV-128, a novel flavonoid small molecule inhibitor of the mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(mTOR1/2 Kinase Inhibitor ME-344, NCI Thesaurus)

Genes responsible for multidrug resistance resulting from their overexpression in mammalian cells.

(Multidrug Resistance Gene, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

NAG shares 83 to 86% identity with orthologous mammalian proteins.

(Neuroblastoma-Amplified Sequence, NCI Thesaurus)