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Milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition
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colostrum
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Colostrum (known colloquially as beestings , bisnings or first milk ) is a form of milk produced by the mammary glands of mammals (including humans) in late pregnancy . Most species will generate colostrum just prior to giving birth. Colostrum contains ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Latin colostrum "first milk from an animal," which is of unknown origin.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colostrum \Co*los"trum\, n. [L., biestings.] (Med.) The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings. A mixture of turpentine and the yolk of an egg, formerly used as an emulsion.
WordNet
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n. milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition [syn: foremilk ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving childbirth. human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, ...
Usage examples of colostrum.
It's like colostrum, you know, what comes before women start nursing, only it's different, too.
She had even given colostrum, she remembered that now, the first spill from her breasts, and there had been a great deal of it.
Alba has just finished nursing and she blows colostrum bubbles from her tiny lips and then falls asleep, a soft warm bag of skin and fluid against my nightgown.