found: Work cat.: Sloan, J.R. A region growing algorithm for the digital image segmentation of breast duct pathological slides at 40x, 2002:leaf 1 (In the breast, tissues include the ductal structures which bring milk from the lobules to the nipples and the fatty tissue that surround the ductal structures ... The most common form ... of abnormality are those of the duct)
found: Medical dictionary, medical terminology dictionary, via WWW, Oct. 5, 2006(lactiferous ducts -- The ducts, numbering 15 or 20, which drain the lobes of the mammary gland; they open at the nipple. Synonym: ductus lactiferi, canalicular ducts, galactophore[s], galactophorous canals, galactophorous ducts, mamillary ducts, mammary ducts, milk ducts, tubuli galactophori, tubuli lactiferi)
found: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (3rd : 2006 : Arlington, Va.). 2006 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2006:p. 901 (The breast ducts are tubes which, following pregnancy, carry breast milk to the nipple)
found: Encyclopedia of reproduction, 1998:v. 2, p. 71 (breast ducts -- Mainframe tubular structures of the glandular component of the breast tissue)
found: Google search, Oct. 5, 2006(milk ducts -- 110,00 hits; breast ducts - 51,700 hits; mammary ducts - 32,800 hits; lactiferous ducts - 15,400 hits)
