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S: NBC – https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43356950 (last access: 23 December 2024); WIPO – https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO1995024494 (last access: 23 December 2024).
N: 1. – humanized (adj): From verb “humanize”. c. 1600, “make or render human,” from human (adj.) + -ize. Meaning “civilize, make humane” is from 1640s. Also humanise. Related: Humanized; humanizing. Humanify “make human” is recorded from 1620s.
– milk (n): – milk (n): “opaque white fluid secreted by mammary glands of female mammals, suited to the nourishment of their young,” Middle English milk, from Old English meoluc (West Saxon), milc (Anglian), from Proto-Germanic *meluk- “milk” (source also of Old Norse mjolk, Old Frisian melok, Old Saxon miluk, Dutch melk, Old High German miluh, German Milch, Gothic miluks), from *melk– “to milk,” from PIE root *melg- “to wipe, to rub off,” also “to stroke; to milk,” in reference to the hand motion involved in milking an animal. Old Church Slavonic noun meleko (Russian moloko, Czech mleko) is considered to be adopted from Germanic.
2. humanized milk.
- Neonatology A modified formulation of cow milk, the fat ratio of which closely mimics human milk–40% casein, 60% whey; HM is indicated in infants < 2000 g.
3. milk, humanized.
- Cow’s milk that has had its composition modified to resemble human milk, for infant feeding. The main change is a reduction in protein content, achieved by dilution with carbohydrate and restoration of the fat content.
4. Beverages; Dietetics: infant feeding formula, commercial infant formula, infant formula, formula.
- Modified milk products or milk substitutes for feeding infants in place of breast feeding.
- Special formula preparations are available for premature babies and those of very low birth weight. For infants intolerant of cow’s milk, there are special formula preparations based on soya or other products. For those with genetic diseases, a range of special formulae are available.
- infant feeding formula; commercial infant formula; infant formula; formula: The plural forms are “infant feeding formulas,” “infant feeding formulae,” “commercial infant formulas,” “commercial infant formulae,” “infant formulas,” “infant formulae,” “formulas” and “formulae.”
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=humanized+milk, https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=humanized (last access: 23 December 2024). 2. TFD – https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/humanized+milk (last access: 23 December 2024). 3. OxfRef – https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20111209163923994 (last access: 23 December 2024). 4. TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 23 December 2024).
OV: humanised milk
S: The Lancet – https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(01)49754-6/fulltext (last access: 23 December 2024); NCBI – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21296/ (last access: 23 December 2024).
SYN: infant feeding formula, commercial infant formula, infant formula, formula. (depending on context)
S: TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 23 December 2024)
CR: feeding, human milk.
