lactation

regulated release of milk from the mammary glands and the period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young
Intangible biological_process Q719426
lactation
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lactation

Summary

lactation is a biological process[1]. lactation ranks in the top 9% of biological_process entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (630 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • lactation's image is recorded as Breast-feeding Mary (SM 5919z).png[3].
  • lactation's image is recorded as Broodmare lactation.jpg[4].
  • lactation's instance of is recorded as biological process[5].
  • lactation's GND ID is recorded as 4166486-3[6].
  • lactation's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85073863[7].
  • lactation's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 120499258[8].
  • lactation's IdRef ID is recorded as 028721772[9].
  • lactation's subclass of is recorded as body fluid secretion[10].
  • lactation's subclass of is recorded as expulsion[11].
  • lactation's subclass of is recorded as biological process[12].
  • lactation's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00563294[13].
  • lactation's part of is recorded as mammary gland development[14].
  • lactation's has use is recorded as breastfeeding[15].
  • lactation's Commons category is recorded as Lactation[16].
  • lactation's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D007774[17].
  • lactation's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 36037[18].
  • lactation's has part is recorded as milk ejection reflex[19].
  • lactation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01l471[20].
  • lactation's MeSH tree code is recorded as G08.686.523[21].
  • lactation's MeSH tree code is recorded as G08.686.702.500[22].
  • lactation's Gene Ontology ID is recorded as GO:0007595[23].
  • lactation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lactation[24].
  • lactation's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX557246[25].
  • lactation's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 573.679[26].
  • lactation's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 636.0892664[27].

Why It Matters

lactation ranks in the top 9% of biological_process entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (630 views/month).[2] lactation has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] lactation is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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