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lactation
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Word definitions for lactation in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lactation \Lac*ta"tion\, n. The secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland; giving suck.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The secretion of milk from the mammary gland of a female mammal. 2 The process of providing the milk to the young; breastfeeding. 3 The period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young; '''lactation''' period.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lactation describes the secretion of milk from the mammary glands and the period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young. The process can occur with all post- pregnancy female mammals , although it predates mammals. In humans the process of feeding ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the period following birth during which milk is secreted; "lactation normally continues until weaning" the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast [syn: suckling ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Because of the long gestation and lactation periods, the interval between calving is usually at least two or three years. ▪ Females are often limited further by the necessity to rear offspring by brooding or lactation . ▪ Tetany ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "process of suckling an infant," from French lactation , from Late Latin lactationem (nominative lactatio ) "a suckling," noun of action from past participle stem of lactare "suckle," from lac (genitive lactis ) "milk," from PIE root *glakt- (cognates: ...
Usage examples of lactation.
Although de Sinety, as shown above, had practised the ablation of the mammary glands during lactation, it would seem that mutilation rather than complete ablation preceded his experiments on the innervation of the mammary nerve.
Ford has collected several cases in which lactation was artificially induced by women who, though for some time not having been pregnant themselves, nursed for others.
They herd us, drive us, milk us, fattening on the currents generated by our emotions in precisely the same way that we fatten on juice involuntarily surrendered by cattle to whom we have given fodder containing stimulants for lactation.
This process triggered lactation in the male, and it was the male who settled down for the requisite number of years to raise the young while the female, after giving birth, was the breadwinner of the family.
Having cleaned her offspring, bitten through the umbilicals, and eaten the afterbirths, consumption of which stimulated her lactation, the brownish tabby now was in a third bout of labor.
Recent experience of physicians and nurse lactation specialists now suggest that most adoptive mothers can begin producing some milk within three or four weeks.
No mammal has re-evolved external fertilization or discarded lactation.
That big initial commitment by a female mammal makes it impossible for her to bluff her way out of further commitment and has led to the evolution of female lactation.
In 1994, spontaneous male lactation was at last reported in males of a wild animal species, the Dyak fruit bat of Malaysia and adjacent islands.
Though I gave them no manure, and did not hoe them all once, I hoed them unusual well as far as I went, and was paid for it in the end, there being in truth," as Evelyn says, "no compost or lactation whatsoever comparable to this continual motion, repastination, and turning of the mould with the spade.
Male lactation beautifully illustrates all the main themes in the evolution of sexuality: evolutionary conflicts between males and females, the importance of confidence in paternity or maternity, differences in reproductive investment between the sexes, and a species' commitment to its biological inheritance.
But even if there are mammal species for which male lactation would be advantageous, its realization runs up against problems posed by the phenomenon termed evolutionary commitment.