Definition of Lactific

1. a. Producing or yielding milk.

Definition of Lactific

1. Adjective. Producing or yielding milk. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lactific

1. producing milk [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lactific

lactic acid dehydrogenase
lactic acid fermentation
lactic acid level
lactic acid oxidative decarboxylase
lactic acidemia
lactic acidosis
lactic dehydrogenase
lactide
lactides
lactiferous
lactiferous ampulla
lactiferous duct
lactiferous ducts
lactiferous gland
lactiferous sinus
lactific (current term)
lactifugal
lactifuge
lactifuges
lactigenous
lactigerous
lactim
lactimide
lactimides
lactimorbus
lactims
lactin
lactinated
lactitol
lactivism

Literary usage of Lactific

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"»welling. Astley Cooper's term for a distension of the breast with milk from obstruction of one ' or more lactiferous ducts. See Lacteal tumour. lactific. ..."

2. Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture by Edward Payson Evans (1896)
"... still commonly worn by wet-nurses, is a survival of the belief in the lactific virtue of this variety of limpid quartz. The association of precious ..."

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