Colostrum

Quick meaning: Colostrum is a noun meaning (medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth.

Meaning

(medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth.

More Meanings

1. A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.

Example Sentences

This valuable fluid—colostrum—plays a number of important biological roles, including helping improve an infant's immune system. Nevertheless, many humans intuitively perceive colostrum as “sour milk,” which should not be given to infants. Other species do not make this serious mistake.

The researchers isolated the antibodies from the cow's colostrum, the first milk produced after birth, which has very high antibody concentrations. They gave these antibodies, extracted from the colostrum, to 10 volunteers and gave another 10 volunteers extracts from colostrum of cows that were not immunized against the traveler's diarrhea bacteria.

Word Forms

• colostra

Synonyms for colostrum

Depending on context, synonyms include beestings, fore-milk, foremilk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include foremilk, colestrum, colostrogenesis, beest, note, beestings.

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