delactation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From de- + Latin lactāre (“to suck milk”), lactātiō (see lactation), from lac (“milk”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, London: Thomas Cox, 2nd edition, 1731, Volume II, “DELACTATION, a weaning from the breast.”[1]
- “delactation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.