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Definition of Colostrum

1. Noun. Milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition.

Definition of Colostrum

1. n. The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.

Definition of Colostrum

1. Noun. (medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, but it is small in quantity. ¹

2. Noun. A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Colostrum

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Medical Definition of Colostrum

1. The first milk secreted by an animal coming into lactation. May be especially rich in maternal lymphocytes and immunoglobulins and thus transfer immunity passively. (18 Jul 2002)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colostrum

Literary usage of Colostrum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"colostrum. This is the name given to the milk secreted at the beginning of a period of ... colostrum on the other hand contains a large number of cells or ..."

2. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Immediately and for twenty-four hours after the birth the colostrum on ... In the colostrum the globules are strikingly unequal in size ; along with very ..."

3. Animal Chemistry with Reference to the Physiology and Pathology of Man by Johann Franz Simon (1846)
"colostrum of animals. In the colostrum of the cow Chevallier and Henri found: ... Boussingault and Le Bel1 found in the colostrum of a cow the day after ..."

4. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"As the period of pregnancy approaches the seventh month the secretion of colostrum becomes more active, and its physical properties are those of a thin, ..."

5. The Milk Question by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1912)
"The amount of colostrum is very small. When it is obtained by slight suction it ... Upon standing, the cream rises in colostrum as it does in normal milk, ..."

6. A Treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1881)
"In some women, according to Dr. Donne, the colostrum is so scanty that only a drop, or half a drop, can be obtained from the nipple by careful pressure. ..."

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