AGALACTOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agalactosis mean? 

• AGALACTOSIS (noun)
  The noun AGALACTOSIS has 1 sense:

1. a condition in which milk is not secreted in the mother's breasts after her child has been delivered

  Familiarity information: AGALACTOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGALACTOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A condition in which milk is not secreted in the mother's breasts after her child has been delivered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

agalactia; agalactosis

Hypernyms ("agalactosis" is a kind of...):

physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)