The word "nipple" is correct and usable in written English.
The word can be used to refer to the small projection of flesh on a human or animal that is connected to the mammary gland by a duct and that is the site of milk secretion. Example: The baby instinctively latched onto her mother's nipple.
"Clarification and Correction," trumpeted the paper on Thursday, in a neat little dig at this newspaper, which had first broken the story three days earlier that the nipple shots were on the way out thanks to an order from the very top of News UK. "Further to reports in all other media outlets, we would like to clarify that this is Page 3 and this is a picture of Nicole, 22, from Bournemouth".
MARY LONOS digs ten tiny fingers into her mother's plump breast and greedily twists the nipple into her toothless mouth.
Newish title-holders include Canada's copyright tsar, New Orleans's recovery tsar, Singapore's baby tsar, Tony Blair's respect tsar, Thailand's condom tsar and America's nipple tsar (Michael Powell, whose job as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission was to prevent a repetition of Janet Jackson's televised bosom exposure).
(Think of former presidential candidate John Edwards's apology for infidelity, or the singer Janet Jackson's supposed contrition for a "wardrobe malfunction" that exposed a nipple to horrified American television viewers).Apologies for past wrongs by present-day institutions are trickier still.
There may be a reasonable line to be drawn here, and I am certainly not encouraging Facebook to become the nipple police, but there are many questions one might raise about the category of nudity that rises to the level of "personal importance".
He rendered excellent descriptions of breast cancer, an early indication of breast cancer known as Paget's disease (1874; an inflammatory cancerous condition around the nipple in elderly women), and Paget's disease of bone (1877; a bone inflammation also known as osteitis deformans).
(Many Iowans have little time for the chardonnay wing of their party, let alone the pierced-nipple wing).
The modern rendition, on the side of every coffee cup, is nipple-free and sanitised.
Women's clothing pushes new boundaries of explicitness (transparent jeans and nipple-less bras are the latest trend).
The males of some snakes have characteristic skin papillae (nipple-like projections) on the throat; the fact that they rub the papillae over the female's body suggests that tactile stimuli are also important to reproduction.
The brachiopod mantle has a dorsal and a ventral lobe covered with small papillae (nipple-like projections) that penetrate into the shell.
