mislactation

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ lactation

Noun

mislactation (uncountable)

1. (medicine, rare, archaic) Defective milk flow or degraded milk quality during lactation.
   • 2021 August 5, Suna Uysal Yalçın et al., “An examination of effects of intimate partner violence on children: A cross-sectional study conducted in a paediatric emergency unit in Turkey”, in Journal of Nursing Management‎^[1], volume 30, page 1655:

     Exposure to stressful situations, such as IPV, might cause mis-lactation. Thus, the mother may be prone to overfeeding her baby.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “mislactation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)