Taber's Medical Dictionary
Cooper ligament
(koop-ĕr)
[Sir Astley Paston Cooper, Brit. surgeon, 1768-1841]
Any of the strands of connective tissue in the mammary gland that extend from glandular tissue through fat toward the skin, where they are attached to the dermis. These ligaments affect the image of the glandular tissue on a mammogram.
SYN: SEE: retinaculum mammae
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Cooper Ligament." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/769342/all/Cooper_ligament.
Cooper ligament. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/769342/all/Cooper_ligament. Accessed December 27, 2024.
Cooper ligament. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/769342/all/Cooper_ligament
Cooper Ligament [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 December 27]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/769342/all/Cooper_ligament.
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