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Papilla, in anatomia papilla mammaria,[1] vel papilla mammae, in literatura antica nec non in sermone medicorum saepius mamilla vel mammilla[2], est pars mammae, e qua lac secernitur. Papilla ab areola pigmentata circumdatur. Frigore vel excitatione sexuali papillae feminarum eriguntur.
Verheyden (1706) scripsit[3]: "Pars illa teres, quae circa medium mammae eminet, dicitur Papilla; estque in virginibus bene habentibus coloris rubicundi; in lactantibus lividior: in effoetis negrescens. (...) Circulus papillae circumiectus et teneritudine coloreque a reliqua cute distinetus vocatur Areola; estque in virginibus pallida, in praegnantibus et lactantibus dicitur fusca; in vetulis nigra. (...)"
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