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milk (milk)

1. the fluid secretion of the mammary gland forming the natural food of young mammals.

2. any whitish milklike substance, e.g., coconut milk or plant latex.

3. a liquid (emulsion or suspension) resembling the secretion of the mammary gland.

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milk of magnesia  a suspension of magnesium hydroxide, used as an antacid and laxative.

modified milk  cow's milk made to correspond to the composition of human milk.

soy milk  a liquid made from soybeans, used as a milk substitute and a source of calcium.

vitamin D milk  cow's milk supplemented with 400 IU of vitamin D per quart.

witch's milk  milk secreted in the breast of the newborn infant.

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milk (mlk)

n.

1. A whitish liquid containing proteins, fats, lactose, and various vitamins and minerals that is produced by the mammary glands of all mature female mammals after they have given birth and serves as nourishment for their young.

2. The milk of cows, goats, or other animals, used as food by humans.

3. A liquid, such as coconut milk, milkweed sap, plant latex, or various medical emulsions, that is similar to milk in appearance.

v.

1. To draw milk from the teat or udder of a female mammal.

2. To press out, drain off, or remove by or as if by milking; strip.

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milk

Etymology: AS, meoluc

a liquid secreted by the mammary glands or udders of mammalian animals that suckle their young. After weaning, people consume the milk of the cow, as well as that of many other animals, including the goat, camel, mare, reindeer, llama, and yak. Milk is a basic food containing carbohydrate (in the form of lactose); protein (mainly casein, with small amounts of lactalbumin and lactoglobulin); suspended fat; the minerals calcium and phosphorus; and the vitamins A, riboflavin, niacin, thiamine, and, when the milk is fortified, D. Some individuals show a sensitivity reaction to milk caused by a deficiency of the enzyme lactase. See also breast milk.

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milk

1. a nutrient fluid produced by the mammary gland of many mammals for the nourishment of their young.

2. a liquid (emulsion or suspension) resembling the secretion of the mammary gland.

3. to remove milk from the mammary gland.

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absent milk

see agalactia.

acid milk

reported as a cause of death in neonatal puppies and kittens, presumably resulting from bacterial mastitis or metritis which concurrently lowers the pH of the bitch's milk. See also toxic milk (below).

acidophilus milk

milk fermented with cultures of Lactobacillus acidophilus; used in gastrointestinal disorders to modify the bacterial flora of the intestinal tract.

African milk bush

see synadenium arborescens.

milk allergy

see milk allergy.

augmented milk culture system

includes preculture incubation, followed by freezing, then use of a larger inoculum than usual.

blood in milk

see blood in milk.

bulk milk

milk stored on the farm in a bulk tank (or tanks) which are refrigerated stainless steel tanks that can quickly cool milk and hold it cold until it is picked up by a bulk milk tank truck.

milk bush

euphorbiatirucalli.

casein milk

a prepared milk containing very little salts and sugars and a large amount of fat and casein.

milk chickens

very young chickens weighing 0.5 to 1 lb (0.25 to 0.50 kg); birds up to 2 lb (1.0 kg) are accepted. Called also poussins.

milk coagulation

coagulation of milk in the abomasum of the calf, precipitated by rennin, the enzyme produced by the abomasal mucosa, converts the dissolved casein into a rubbery clot. See also chymosin.

condensed milk

milk that has been partly evaporated and sweetened with sugar.

milk cow, milch cow

cow used expressly for the production of milk for human consumption.

days in milk (DIM)

the number of days during a lactation that a cow has been milking, beginning with the last date of calving to the current test date.

milk dentition

the dentition of sucklings, the deciduous teeth.

dialyzed milk

milk from which the sugar has been removed by dialysis through a parchment membrane.

milk drinker's syndrome

metastatic calcification in young animals kept on high milk intakes for long periods.

milk drop syndrome

a sudden and often unexplained fall in milk production in a dairy herd. It can occur when any disease or condition affects a significant proportion of a herd at one time; identified causes include poisoning by Neotyphodium(Acremonium) coeniophialum or Claviceps purpurea, infection with Leptospira hardjo, severe combined nutritional and environmental stress.

milk-ejection reflex

filling of the teat and udder cisterns with milk in response to teat stimulation, the response being effected via a release of oxytocin from the posterior pituitary; called also letdown.

evaporated milk

milk prepared by evaporation of half of its water content.

milk fat

see butterfat, milk lipid (below).

milk fat depression

see butterfat.

milk-fed neonate

a neonate still being suckled by the dam or being reared on artificial milk replacer.

milk fever

a metabolic disease of mature dairy cows occurring just before or soon after calving; signs are muscular weakness, peripheral circulatory failure with cool skin, small amplitude pulse, soft heart sounds, recumbency and drowsiness. Definitive clinical pathology is hypocalcemia. The same syndrome occurs in ewes; called also moss-ill.

milk flake

fine, flat sheets of fibrin as part of the inflammatory process in the cow's udder, especially in cases of coliform mastitis.

milk flow sensor

a sensor fitted in the long milk tube from the cluster to the milk line which is sensitive to the rate of flow; designed to trigger the automatic removal of the cluster when the rate of flow of milk in the milk tube falls below a predetermined level.

fortified milk

milk made more nutritious by addition of cream, egg white or vitamins.

milk harvesting

the process of producing, extracting and storing milk on the farm.

homogenized milk

milk treated so that the fats form a permanent emulsion and the cream does not separate.

milk impacts

drops of milk from other teat cups propelled vigorously against the teat ends of susceptible-to-mastitis quarters during, and as a result of teat cup liner slips.

inappropriate production of milk

see galactorrhea.

milk intolerance

deficiency of intestinal lactase which results in diarrhea, abdominal distention and cramping. Occurs most commonly in puppies and kittens.

milk knots

palpable, milk-containing dilations in the lactiferous ducts in the udder, especially of cows.

milk lameness

see milk leg.

milk leakage

teats which drip milk between milkings have defective external sphincters and are susceptible to infection. Also occurs when the udder is very full, e.g. just before calving, or when letdown has occurred prior to milking when the intramammary pressure exceeds the closing forces of the normal teat end sphincter.

milk letdown

see letdown (1).

milk line

the site for future location of mammary glands developing early as a ridge along the ventral abdomen of the embryo.

milk lipid

butter fat globules in the milk; some is synthesized by mammary epithelium, some is secreted unchanged from the bloodstream.

low-fat milk

normal milk but with the normal fat percentage greatly reduced, e.g. to below 50%; usually due to feeding finely ground grain or low-fiber roughage.

milk of magnesia

a suspension containing 7-8.5% of magnesium hydroxide, used as an antacid and laxative.

milk meter

flow meter at each unit in a milking machine designed to measure the yield of milk for each cow at each milking.

milk pasteurization

see pasteurization.

peak milk yield

in cows the period during early lactation when the amount of milk produced per day is higher than at any other time. In bitches and queens, maximum lactation is achieved at 3-4 weeks postpartum.

milk persistency

rate of decline of milk production from the peak. This is in effect the duration of the cow's production of an amount of milk which is worth harvesting; in commercial dairying cows are usually dried off when their daily yield falls to less than 4 liters. In good herds most cows are dried off because they have been in milk for the specified duration.

milk pipeline

a stainless steel or glass pipe used for transporting milk by gravity to storage. May be above the milking units (high line) or below the level of the units (low line).

milk production

1. the secretion of milk by the mammary epithelium.

2. the volume of milk produced, usually quoted for a year or a lactation, sometimes quoted as kg of butterfat or of milk solids produced. Used as the benchmark of productivity of dairy cows.

milk production data

records of volume and components of milk produced by individual cows or the whole herd, either actually measured, or aspirated from periodic samplings.

milk progesterone tests

see pregnancy tests.

milk protein

casein.

protein milk

milk modified to have a relatively low content of carbohydrate and fat and a relatively high protein content.

milk replacer

used as replacement for milk in calf, lamb and piglet diets to permit early weaning and to rear orphans. Milk replacers are manufactured from dried milk products but may contain large amounts of animal fats, nonmilk carbohydrates and proteins. The dried milk powder used may also have been denatured during heat treatment. Poor replacers cause dietary diarrhea. Should contain less than 0.1% plant fiber, 36-40% lactose, 30-40% fat, 28-32% milk protein.

milk replacer malnutrition

malnutrition in calves fed on poorly formulated milk replacer.

milk ring test

is used for surveillance of brucellosis prevalence in dairy cattle. It depends on the presence of agglutinable antibodies in the milk and the agglutination of added stained antigen by antibodies in the milk of positive reacting cows.

milk sample culturing

from cows may be composite of all quarters in one sample or single quarter samples. Samples must be refrigerated until cultured. Culture on sheep blood agar is standard but many special media available for particular purposes.

milk scald

alopecic dermatitis around the muzzle of bucket-fed calves caused by frequent immersion in milk.

milk sickness

the disease of humans caused by the drinking of milk from cows which have been eating eupatoriumrugosum; the milk contains tremetol.

skim milk

see skim milk.

milk solids

combined yield of fat and protein in the milk.

milk spots

1 mm diameter white spots in the capsule of the pig's liver caused by migration of Ascaris suum larvae.

milk stage

the period of plant growth after blooming has finished when the seed is formed but still soft and milky when squeezed.

milk stone

a calcareous deposit which accumulates in milking machinery and utensils over a long period if proper cleaning techniques are not practiced.

milk sugar

lactose.

milk teeth

see milk dentition (above).

milk tetany

see calf hypomagnesemic tetany.

milk thistle

see silybum marianum, sonchus.

toxic milk

bacterial toxins in the dam's milk are believed to be the cause of death in neonatal puppies and kittens.

uterine milk

see uterine milk.

milk veins

subcutaneous abdominal veins of lactating cows. See also Table 15.

milk vetch

see astragalus.

milk vine

see marsdenia rostrata.

milk well

opening through the ventral abdominal wall to permit entry of milk vein.

whole milk

milk as it is drawn from the udder, undiluted, not separated into skim milk, buttermilk, whey. See also whole milk fed.

milk yield

see milk production (above).

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milk

A whitish fluid derived from the mammaries or simulates same in color or constitution. See Breast milk, Certified milk, Humanized milk, Raw milk, Unpasteurized milk, Witch's milk.

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Patient discussion about milk progesterone tests.

Q. Can I be allergic only to milk? I don't get anything from eating dairy- only from drinking milk I get itchy and sneezy. is that possible?

A. i"am,i"m allercic to only milk,i can eat a half gallon of ice cream,with no effects,but i can only drink about 6 ounces of milk, more than that i get sick.try drinking less milk through out the day,just drink a little at a time, i love milk but milk dosent like me,

Q. What Is the Difference Between Milk Allergy and Milk Intolerance? My 1 year old baby is sensitive to milk products. The doctor said this might pass when he grows up if it is just lactose intolerance, or it may stay if it is an actual milk allergy. What is the difference?

A. Huge differance between a Food Allergy and Food Tollerance. Food Allergies = An alergic reaction rash, diharea, feeling sick/ill ect... simular to pollen rag weed ect except it's food! when your body recognizes a forein object it identifies it and then tries to get rid of it with your immune system FOOD ALLERGIES can happen from eating the same thing and suddenly for a reason (not discovered YET) your body dosen't recognize it as food instead treats it like a forein invader after it goes through your system the syptoms go away.they can get worse or even deadly each time YOUR EXPOSED

HOWEVER, Food Tollerance such as Lactose Intollerance means that your body is not producing ENOUGH of the Lactase Enzyme. Lactase is the enzyme that breaks down the sugar Lactose. Lactose is the common sugar in most dairy products.Having an intollerance simply means that you cannot digest dairy products UNLESS YOU take that enzyme with your meal.(enzyme deficiency)

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Q. Can anyone help me. I have weak bones and the doctor advised me to take milk to boost my vitamin D. Can anyone help me. I have weak bones and the doctor advised me to take milk to boost my vitamin D. I hate milk and I hope Vitamin supplements are also available in the market. I can get natural Vitamin D from sunlight also. As I am averse to milk can I go for Vitamin D Supplement?

A. So if you don't wanna know about Realmilk, I'd recommend
Calcium/magnesium
Kelp (copper in the kelp will help to absorb the calcium also)
Cod liver oil (excellent natural source of vitamins A & D, double the dose)
Flax seed oil
Raw apple cider vinegar (puts the calcium where it's s'posed to go)