colostrum

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin colostrum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kəˈlɒstɹəm/

Noun

colostrum (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, but it is small in quantity.
2. A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.

Synonyms

• beastings
• beest
• beestings
• beistings
• beistyn
• biestings
• first milk
• fore-milk
• green milk

Translations

a form of milk

Arabic: لبأ (ar) (laba') m. Belarusian: малодзіва (be) (malódziva) n. Bulgarian: коластра (bg) (kolástra) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 初乳 (zh) (chūrǔ) Finnish: ternimaito (fi) French: colostrum (fr) m. German: Kolostrum (de) n. Greek: πρωτόγαλα (el) (protógala) n. Hungarian: előtej (hu) Italian: colostro (it) m.

Japanese: 初乳 (ja) (しょにゅう, shonyū) Korean: 초유 (ko) (choyu) (初乳 (ko)) Latin: colostrum (la) Persian: آغوز (fa) Polish: siara (pl) f. Romanian: coraslă (ro), colastră (ro) Russian: молозиво (ru) (molózivo) n. Spanish: calostro (es) m. Turkish: ağız (tr) Ukrainian: молозиво (uk) (molózyvo) n. Vietnamese: sữa non (vi)

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Latin

Noun

colostrum

1. colostrum, beestings

Descendants

English colostrum French: colostrum Italian: colostro

Portuguese: colostro Romanian: coraslă, colastră Spanish: calostro