Associations to the word «Colostrum»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

COLOSTRUM, noun. Milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats