uterine milk

uterine milk
uterine milk n a nutritive secretion that is produced by uterine glands esp. during the early phases of mammalian gestation and that nourishes the young mammalian embryo prior to implantation

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a white milky substance in the gravid uterus of some species, presumably for nourishment of the embryo.

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