Definition of Lactating

1. Adjective. Producing or secreting milk. "Lactating cows"

Exact synonyms: Wet
Similar to: Fresh
Antonyms: Dry

Definition of Lactating

1. Verb. (present participle of lactate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lactating

1. lactate [v] - See also: lactate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lactating

lactase deficiency
lactase restriction
lactases
lactate
lactate-2-sulfate sulfatase
lactate 2-mono-oxygenase
lactate dehydratase
lactate dehydrogenase
lactate dehydrogenase isoenzymes
lactate dehydrogenase virus
lactate level
lactated
lactated Ringer's injection
lactated Ringer's solution
lactates
lactating (current term)
lactating adenoma
lactation
lactation amenorrhoea
lactation hormone
lactational
lactational mastitis
lactations
lactatriaosylceramide beta 1-3 galactosyltransferase
lacteal
lacteal cyst
lacteal fistula
lacteal vessel
lacteally

Literary usage of Lactating

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

1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Mammary Arterial and Venous Concentrations of Serum Insulin in lactating Dairy ... Indeed in vitro studies of mammary epithelial cells from lactating mice ..."

2. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"It seems certain that neither of these dietary essentials is present in abundance in milk unless the diet of the lactating animal serves as the source. 358. ..."

3. Vital Factors of Foods: Vitamins and Nutrition by Carleton Ellis, Annie Louise Macleod (1922)
"... by alteration in the diet of the lactating animal has received much attention from investigators, especially in connection with the vitamin content. ..."

4. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann, Henry Larned Keith Shaw, Linnæus Edford La Fétra, Luther Emmett Holt (1912)
"Median sagittal section through two lactating breast-glands. Parenchyma black, connective tissue white, fat red. Flo. 50. Patient 20 years of age, IT-para, ..."

5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON BLOOD COMPONENTS IN lactating DAIRY CATTLE Bf D. HORROCKS* and JYF PATERSON Department of Biochemistry, University of Liverpool ..."

6. BST edited by Jean A. Larson (1995)
"124 NAL Call No: 41.8 C163 Effects of recombinant bovine somatotropin on hypophyseal and ovarian functions of lactating dairy cows. ..."

7. Milk by Paul Gustav Heinemann (1919)
"Gaines injected defibrinated blood into a lactating goat—1, ... Injection of a cow's placenta into a lactating goat also produced inhibition. ..."

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