Definitions for lactation

lactation lac·ta·tion

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

Lactation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 338 anagrams from letters in lactation (aacilnott).

Definitions for lactation

noun

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

Origin of lactation

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

Examples for lactation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

lactation has no appreciable effect on the number of leucocytes.

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

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

Word Value for lactation
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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