delactation

English

Etymology

From de- + Latin lactāre (“to suck milk”), lactātiō (see lactation), from lac (“milk”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /diːˌlækˈteɪʃən/

Noun

delactation (uncountable)

The act of weaning.^[1]
- 1993, Bonnie S. Worthington-Roberts, Sue Rodwell Williams, chapter 11, in Nutrition in Pregnancy and Lactation‎^[2], 5th edition, St. Louis: Mosby, page 438:
  The treatment can also be used to suppress lactation completely when rapid delactation is necessary, as in the case of the death of a premature infant for whom the mother was pumping.

References

^ Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, London: Thomas Cox, 2nd edition, 1731, Volume II, “DELACTATION, a weaning from the breast.”^[1]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “delactation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

[1] Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, London: Thomas Cox, 2nd edition, 1731, Volume II, “DELACTATION, a weaning from the breast.”^[1]

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