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Noun
This boosts your aerobic metabolism, and helps explain why the blood tests also showed that resting lactate levels dropped by 15 percent after the breath-holds.—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024 This is the point at which your body can no longer keep up with the generation of lactate in your bloodstream, and is indicative of when an activity flops over from aerobic to anaerobic.—Andrew Williams, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
But that hasn’t worked yet because goats only lactate after giving birth, and Buttercup only recently had her kids.—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2024 Women who reported using a pump at any point lactated for five months (21 weeks) longer than those who didn’t.—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 8 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for lactate
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Etymology
Verb
Latin lactatus, past participle of lactare, from lact-, lac
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