Definitions
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- adjective Inducing lactation.
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- adjective that induces
lactation
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- adjective inducing lactation
Etymologies
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lacto- + -genic
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Examples
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Older names for it are lactogenic hormone (lak'toh-jen'ik; "milk-producing," a word of mixed Greek and Latin origin) and prolactin ( "prior to milk" L).
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Of the three gonadotrophins of the pituitary, lactogenic hormone is the only one to have been isolated in reasonably pure form.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Emesis, lactogenic lavage, can you take sotolol with levaquin of bandaided displacer followed in 30 coughs by a blueandgrey hypolipidemic would permeate dreadful therapy.
Wii-volution 2010
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