montgomery's tubercle

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   one of the sebaceous glands on the areolae of the breast that lubricate the breast during breast-feeding

   Broadersebaceous gland

Questions about montgomery's tubercle

What does montgomery's tubercle mean?

montgomery's tubercle means "one of the sebaceous glands on the areolae of the breast that lubricate the breast during breast-feeding".

Is montgomery's tubercle a common word?

montgomery's tubercle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.