Terms Related to Milk

• Milk Ejection

  Reflex in which tactile stimulation of nipples causes release of oxytocin which causes myoepithelial cells surrounding mammary alveoli to contract and expel the milk. Applies ...

• Milk Sickness

  An acute, often fatal disease caused by the ingestion of milk, milk products, or the flesh of cattle or sheep which have a disease known ...

• Colostrum

  The thin, yellow, serous fluid secreted by the mammary glands during pregnancy and immediately postpartum before lactation begins. It consists of immunologically active substances, white ...

• Milk Protein

  The major protein constituents of milk are CASEINS and whey proteins such as LACTALBUMIN and LACTOGLOBULINS. Immunoglobulins occur in high concentrations in colostrum and in ...

• Nipple

  The conic organs which usually give outlet to milk from the mammary glands.

• Milk Banks

  Centers for acquiring, storing, and distributing human milk.

• Mammary Glands

  In humans, either of the mammary glands, consisting of fibrous tissue connecting the lobes and fatty tissue in between the lobes.