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▪ I. lactate, n. Chem.|ˈlæktət| [f. lact-ic + -ate4.] A salt of lactic acid.
1794Pearson Table Chem. Nomencl. §24 Lactates, compounds of Acid of Milk with different Bases. 1819J. G. Children Chem. Anal. 317 Lactate of lead..; lactate of iron..; lactate of copper. 1899J. Cagney Jaksch's Clin. Diagn. vi. (ed. 4) 234 Crystals of lactate of lime occur in the discharges of children. ▪ II. lactate, v.|lækˈteɪt| [f. L. lactāt-, ppl. stem of lactāre to suckle.] intr. To secrete or discharge milk. Chiefly as lacˈtating ppl. a.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1908Arch. Middlesex Hosp. XIII. 59 In the lactating breast the number of acini is very large. 191317th Internat. Congr. Med. III. ii. 173 The pregnant and lactating animals survived the extirpation of the adrenal glands much longer than normal, non⁓pregnant, or male animals. 1948New Biol. IV. 127 Purified preparations of prolactin were found inferior to more crude pituitary preparations..in their power to increase the milk yield of cows already lactating. 1953E. Gellhorn Physiol. Found. Neurol. & Psychiatry xiii. 305 There is still another function of oxytocin..: the ejection of milk from the lactating mammillary gland. 1956J. S. Folley Physiol. & Biochem. Lactation ii. 28 Mammary tissue from lactating rats..exhibits much greater respiratory activity in vitro. 1956Jrnl. Pediatrics XLIX. 550/2 She had suckled all her daughter's children and lactated freely each time. 1971J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xxiv. 319 To estimate reliably the number of children born to a group of women under the conditions that their husbands are freely available and that they are not using contraceptives or lactating is nearly impossible. |