pap
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9.9
- noun
- /pæp/
- Archaic
:
pezón
- The calf suckled gently on its mother's pap.
- PAP smears
Examples
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In some older texts, pap refers to a human nipple in an archaic context.
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The baby reached for the pap of the bottle eagerly.
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Most women are HPV negative, not at risk, and cannot benefit from pap testing.
Blog text (26) -
I am tested every year at my Pap smear.
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I had no idea what an irregular pap was, let alone a colp.
Blog text (16) -
Here is some information about pap tests and pelvic exams that doctors rarely tell you:
Blog text (26) -
Out onto the front porch hobbles Pap, wary, slow, sticking close to the open door.
Fiction book (1999) -
Pap sat away across the pasture on the edge of the place, squatting under a hickory tree.
Fiction book (1999) -
Now Lil sees that Mom is filling the doorway behind Pap with her hammy arms up either side of the frame.
Fiction book (1999) -
High cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates have been reported in Fiji, where Pap smear coverage is low.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
103
3.5
The small raised part on a breast where milk comes from
27
9.6
A small bump on an animal's breast that young use to drink milk
24
5.9
A small part on a female animal's udder that young animals suck milk from
1
9.8
A small nipple-shaped bump of tissue on animals, for example at the base of a hair or on the tongue
A small round part of the breast that a baby sucks to get milk
A small round part on the breast where a baby sucks to get milk
The nipples of a woman or animal that feed their young
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pap for a nipple comes from an old baby word pappa or the root pap-, which meant 'small soft lump' or 'teat'. So a pap is the small soft bump on the breast you feed from.