Health Sciences

Items

• Fissure

  Skin crack.
• Flat nipples

  Nipples not protruding.
• Fore milk

  Watery early milk.
• Formula feeding

  Artificial milk feeding.
• Full breasts

  Milk-filled breasts.
• Gestation

  Pregnancy period.
• Gestational age

  Age of pregnancy.
• Gulp

  Loud swallowing.
• Hind milk

  Fat-rich later milk.
• Hormone

  Chemical messenger.
• Immune system

  Body defense system.
• Immunity

  Ability to fight disease.
• Ineffective suckling

  Poor milk removal.
• Infective mastitis

  Breast infection inflammation.
• Inverted nipples

  Nipples pulled inward.
• Jaundice

  Yellowing of skin/eyes.
• Lactation

  Milk production process.
• Lactose

  Milk sugar.
• Lipase

  Fat-digesting enzyme.
• Low birth weight

  Baby under 2.5kg.
• Mastitis

  Breast inflammation.
• Mature milk

  Fully developed breast milk.
• Meconium stools

  First newborn stool.
• Macronutrients

  Nutrients needed in large amounts.
• Micronutrients

  Nutrients needed in small amounts.