Definition of lactate
:a salt or ester of lactic acid
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Under examination, floatation therapy has turned up encouraging results in reducing blood pressure and cortisol levels, reducing blood lactate levels after intense exercise, and other physiological improvements.
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Human sweat contains many different metabolites, including lactate, amino acids and fats, as well as sodium.
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Resistance and interval training can improve the lactate threshold, or the point at which muscles begin to fatigue and fail.
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The study shows that lactate is not only present, but also necessary, for every step in cancer’s development.
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During exercise, lactate is cleared out, but in cancer there is chronic disregulated production.
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First Known Use of lactate
circa 1794
Definition of lactate
lactated;
lactating
intransitive verb
:to secrete milk
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Males often chased, bit, struck, and scratched fertile females (easily distinguished by their bright red, swollen hindquarters), but not pregnant or lactating females.
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Debbie starts to lactate, and clenches her breasts in giggly embarrassment.
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The mouse mothers also lactated normally, a sign that the follicles in their ovaries were producing the correct amount of hormones.
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San Jose Animal Care Center, which responded to the accident, discovered that the coyote was lactating.
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Poole believes the female under which the infant hid, which had swollen breasts from lactating, was its mother.
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The cancer cells inefficiently convert far less of the glucose into ATP, or energy, converting about 70 percent of it to lactate as a byproduct, according to Warburg’s observation.
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A lack of food sources available to lactating mothers close to Channel Islands sea lion breeding grounds led to mass strandings starting in 2013.
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Origin and Etymology of lactate
Latin lactatus, past participle of lactare, from lact-, lac
LACTATE Defined for English Language Learners
lactate
verb
Definition of lactate for English Language Learners
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of a woman or a female animal : to produce milk
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