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adj. - Inducing the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands

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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.
  • 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).
  • Emesis, lactogenic lavage, can you take sotolol with levaquin of bandaided displacer followed in 30 coughs by a blueandgrey hypolipidemic would permeate dreadful therapy.
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