Lactation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LACTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of suckling young; the period of milk secretion normally following childbirth
• the secretion of milk by the mammary glands.
• the action of suckling an infant.
• secretion of milk by female mammals to feed young
• A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.
• the period following birth during which milk is secreted
• the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands
• feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a salt or ester of lactic acid

Words related to LACTATION

lactational13 lactationally18 lactations12

Words that contain LACTATION

lactations12 ablactation15 lactational13 ablactations16 lactationally18

How to use LACTATION in a sentence

• Milk, when drawn from the cow, is of a yellowish-white colour, and is the most yellow at the beginning of the period of lactation.
• Lactation is always an exhausting process, and as the child increases in size and strength, the drain upon the mother becomes great and depressing.
• What do you know, for instance, of lactation and the act of sucking, Sir? I have been, like a good Christian, to my Paley already.
• During lactation also, the same extra vital work done is a stimulus to a physiological activity which is favourable to health and longevity.
• It may be detected in the sweat, the saliva, the bronchial secretion, and, during lactation, in the milk.
• If this postulate be granted, we have to determine how it comes about that the German figures, for instance, are showing this extraordinarily rapid decline in maternal lactation.
• Not only the primary function of sex, but especially its secondary one of lactation, is made use of.

Similar words containing LACTA without suffix tion

lactam10 lactams11 lactary12 lactase9 lactate9 lactases10 lactated11 lactates10 lactarian11 lactating12 lactarians12 lactations12 ablactation15 caprolactam19 lactalbumin17 lactational13 ablactations16 caprolactams20 galactagogue17 lactalbumins18 galactagogues18 lactationally18

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