suckling period

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• suckling — /suk ling/, n. an infant or a young animal that is not yet weaned. [1400 50; late ME; see SUCK, LING1] * * * In mammals, the drawing of milk into the mouth from the nipple of a mammary gland. In human beings, it is referred to as nursing or… …   Universalium

• Suckling — /suk ling/, n. Sir John, 1609 42, English poet. * * * In mammals, the drawing of milk into the mouth from the nipple of a mammary gland. In human beings, it is referred to as nursing or breast feeding. The word also denotes an animal that has not …   Universalium

• Oxford period poetry anthologies — These are Oxford poetry anthologies of English poetry, which select from a given period. See also The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse. Contents 1 New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (1991) 2 New Oxford Book of Eighteenth… …   Wikipedia

• nutrition — nutritional, nutritionary, adj. nutritionally, adv. /nooh trish euhn, nyooh /, n. 1. the act or process of nourishing or of being nourished. 2. the science or study of, or a course of study in, nutrition, esp. of humans. 3. the process by which… …   Universalium

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• Pyruvate carboxylase — Protein Name=PAGENAME caption= Symbol=PC AltSymbols= HGNCid=8636 Chromosome=11 Arm=q Band=11 LocusSupplementaryData= q13.1 ECnumber=6.4.1.1 OMIM=608786 EntrezGene=5091 RefSeq=NM 000920 UniProt=P11498 PDB=Pyruvate carboxylase is an enzyme of the… …   Wikipedia

• Breastfeeding — Suckling and nursing are synonyms. For other uses, see Nursing (disambiguation) and Suckling (disambiguation) An infant breastfeeding …   Wikipedia

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• English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …   Universalium

• mammal — mammallike, adj. /mam euhl/, n. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg laying monotremes, giving birth to… …   Universalium

• History of the British Virgin Islands — The History of the British Virgin Islands is usually, for convenience, broken up into five separate periods: * Pre Columbian Amerindian settlement, up to an uncertain date * Nascent European settlement, from approximately 1612 until 1672 *… …   Wikipedia