Definitions for lactations

lactations lac·ta·tion

Spelling: [lak-tey-shuh n]
IPA: /lækˈteɪ ʃən/

Lactations is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 697 anagrams from letters in lactations (aacilnostt).

Definitions for lactations

noun

  1. the secretion or formation of milk.
  2. the period of milk production.

Origin of lactations

1660-70; Late Latin lactātiōn- (stem of lactātiō) a giving suck. See lactate1, -ion

Examples for lactations

Menstruation, reproduction, and lactation are at once the cause of an anabolic surplus and the means of getting rid of it.

Pregnancy, lactation, and suppuration also have the same effect, but to a slighter and less permanent extent.

Certainly not in the same way that motherhood triggers contractions, lactation, and stretch marks.

It is a defect that is peculiar to individual animals and is liable to recur at approximately the same period in lactation.

At certain stages in lactation, a bitter salty taste is occasionally to be noted that is peculiar to individual animals.

lactation has no appreciable effect on the number of leucocytes.

The two preceding varieties commonly occur during the first two or three months of lactation.

Then, there were five years during which she did not perform the function of lactation, and yet, she did not lose this function.

Sinety126 has studied the effect of lactation on the liver, and has ascertained the existence of fatty degeneration.

Should she become a mother and nurse her child, this function of lactation would be the periodic function of the breasts.

Word Value for lactations
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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