(n.) The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The conclusion is that rise of blood glucose does not take place in all piglets after the first intake of foremilk.
(2) For foremilk, geometric means of Coulter milk somatic cell counts and Fossomatic counts were not different.
(3) There was no difference among foremilk, middle milk and hind milk, nor was there a diurnal pattern of variation in unesterified choline concentrations.
(4) Quarter foremilk samples were aseptically collected from each cow within 1 mo of drying off and within 1 mo after parturition for bacteriological analysis.
(5) Variation of three estimates of udder inflammation (SCC, California mastitis test, and electrical conductivity) among the foremilk, machine milk, and hand stripping samples were studied.
(6) With two groups of 12 cows, a procedure involving foremilking, teat washing and drying before milking was compared with no premilking preparation for its effects on mastitis and teat contamination.
(7) Machine milk, foremilk, and stripping milk fractions in udders where both halves were healthy were compared.
(8) Most variables were more accurate in predicting infection when measures were in strippings rather than in foremilk or bucket milk.
(9) Foremilk samples were obtained for bacteriological examination, somatic cell count of milk, and for assay of phagocytosis.
(10) Levels of prostaglandin E2, prostaglandins F2 alpha and prostacyclin (measured as 6-keto PGF1 alpha) were measured by radioimmunoassay in aliquots of foremilk and hindmilk obtained at different stages of lactation, (colostrum, transitional and mature milk), from ten healthy nursing mothers who delivered at term.
(11) Foremilk samples were taken aseptically for bacterial analysis.
(12) The diagnostic reliability of techniques for determining the prevalence of teat canal infections varies: bacteriological results obtained by examination of teat canal swabs were 20% higher on average than those of foremilk samples (FMS) examined and classified according to the criteria of the International Dairy Federation (IDF).
(13) The log SCC of the machine milk did not differ from that of the foremilk fraction but was significantly less than the stripping milk.
(14) Quarter samples of foremilk, strippings, and bucket milk were obtained from 75 cows at the afternoon milking over 8 wk.
(15) The following were recorded: daily milk production, feed intake, and health observations; weekly body weight, temperature, heart and respiratory rates and rectal palpation; semi-monthly clinical chemistry determinations; and monthly milk fat, microbiological culture of quarter foremilk samples, and composite milk somatic cell counts.
(16) There was earlier appearance of foremilk and milk in these females.
(17) Season affected the levels of 25-(OH)D and vitamin D. The 25-(OH)D levels were higher in hind- than in foremilk.
(18) Breastmilk composition is known to vary depending on various factors (foremilk for example, is lower in fat than hindmilk) and a single test might not provide an accurate overall measurement.
(19) For the majority of newborn domestic animals evidence has been produced to the effect that the intestine can absorb intact antibody from foremilk.
(20) Reverse correlation was observed between ACTH and hormones secreted by the pituitary gland in foremilk and mature breast milk.
Milk
Definition:
(n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.
(n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
(n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
(n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
(v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
(v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
(v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
(v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(3) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(4) Four patients with acute brucellosis are described, none of whom had any connexion with farming or milk industry, the source of infection being different in each case.
(5) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(6) In contrast, human breast milk contained substantially increased levels of immunoreactive PTHrP.
(7) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(8) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(9) The presence of BLG in human milk is a common finding in both atopic and non-atopic mothers.
(10) The overall result of this system has been to decrease the coefficients of variation to below 5% for all the milk and serum proteins tested.
(11) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(12) Leukocytes were isolated by centrifugation from milk collected at postinjection hour 16.
(13) Postpartum milk samples from 61 heifers and 24 tissues from 2 reactor cattle were culture-negative for B abortus.
(14) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(15) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
(16) Increasing dietary protein percent raised milk protein percent but not protein yield or yield of other milk components, milk yield, SCM yield, or DM intake.
(17) It was also established that the Y. enterocolitica strains isolated from raw cow milk did not refer to the European serotypes 0:3 and 0:9 that were pathogenic for humans.
(18) The major lipase in human milk is dependent on bile salts for activity and probably participates in intestinal digestion of milk lipids in the newborn.
(19) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(20) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.