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Definition of Foremilk
1. Noun. Milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition.
Definition of Foremilk
1. n. The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.
Definition of Foremilk
1. Noun. The first milk drawn from a cow during milking; in humans, the milk secreted initially during breastfeeding, typically low in fat and rich in protein. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foremilk
1. the milk secreted immediately after childbirth [n -S]
Medical Definition of Foremilk
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Foremilk
Literary usage of Foremilk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Production and Inspection of Milk by Earley Vernon Wilcox, Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station (1912)
"REJECTING THE foremilk. Dairymen who put forth a special effort to produce clean
milk with a low bacterial content make a practice of discarding a few of ..."
2. Pure Milk and the Public Health: A Manual of Milk and Dairy Inspection by Archibald Robinson Ward, Myer Edward Jaffa (1909)
"foremilk. The very first stream of milk froni the teat has been found to contain
from 1000 to bacteria per cc. (26). The average of 70 experiments by Conn ..."
3. Text-book of medical and pharmaceutical chemistry by Elias Hudson Bartley (1909)
"foremilk and Stripping!.- By ' f«irw:.:r " i: «•'•. n' 'i"<- <n..i milk taken
from a full ... f foremilk; first quart :c-,4 *>•/', i', 47 /.v4 f foremilk; ..."
4. Pediatrics: The Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Children by Thomas Morgan Rotch (1896)
"... 84) of what was practically a " foremilk" showed the low percentage of fat
and sugar which might be expected in a " foremilk. ..."
5. A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire by Egerton Leigh (1877)
"L. foremilk, v.—To milk the first half of the quantity a cow gives, ... L.
foremilk, s.—The first portion of the milk given by a cow at a meal, ..."
6. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1899)
"Usually I think these forms found in the " foremilk " are the lactic acid ...
I think, however, that the bacteria in the foremilk play but a small part in ..."
7. Farmer's Cyclopedia of Live Stock by Earley Vernon Wilcox, Clarence Beaman Smith (1908)
"The first few streams of milk, or the foremilk, therefore, ... The foremilk should
not be saved, for it contains a very low percentage of fat in addition to ..."
8. Infant-feeding in its relation to health and disease by Louis Fischer (1903)
"The milk which is first drawn is known as the foremilk, and contains very much
less fat than that last drawn, known as the strippings. ..."
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