English Dictionary

colostrum

IPA（発音記号）

/kəˈlɒstɹəm/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常

(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.

日本語の意味

初乳。出産直前または出産直後に母の乳腺から分泌される、濃厚で黄みがかった乳で、豊富な栄養素や抗体を含む。

The newborn received only a few teaspoons of colostrum, but its concentrated antibodies were crucial for immune protection.

新生児はほんの数さじの初乳しか受け取らなかったが、その濃縮された抗体は免疫防御にとって極めて重要だった。

意味（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.

The researchers isolated the antibodies from the cow's colostrum, the first milk produced after birth, which has very high antibody concentrations. They gave these antibodies, extracted from the colostrum, to 10 volunteers and gave another 10 volunteers extracts from colostrum of cows that were not immunized against the traveler's diarrhea bacteria.

意味（2）

A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.

colostra （ plural ）