let-down reflex

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let-down reflex.

See milk ejection reflex.

let-down reflex

Obstetrics A physiologic postpartum response evoked by sucking–or negative mechanical pressure on the ♀ nipple or by psychologic stimuli, causing the release–'let-down' of breast milk in a nursing mother. See Breast milk.

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