beest·ings

also beast·ings (bē′stĭngz)

pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

The first milk secreted by a mammal, especially a cow, after parturition; colostrum.

[Middle English bestinggis, pl. of besting, from Old English bȳsting, from bēost, beestings.]

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beestings

(ˈbiːstɪŋz) ,

biestings

beastings

(Agriculture) (functioning as singular) the first milk secreted by the mammary glands of a cow or similar animal immediately after giving birth; colostrum

[Old English bӯsting, from bēost beestings; related to Middle Dutch biest]

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beest•ings

or beast•ings

(ˈbi stɪŋz)

n. (used with a sing. v.)

colostrum, esp. of a cow.

[before 1000; late Middle English bestynge, Old English bȳsting=bēost beestings (c. Old Saxon, Old High German biost) + -ing -ing ¹]

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Influence of fathers on daily increases and body weight of calves during feeding with beestings. Scient.

The Impact of Selected Breeding and Environmental Factors on the Efficiency of Rearing Calves

This decrease likely resulted from providing nutrition to the fetus and formation of the beestings. Mechanisms are in place to efficiently maintain normal serum Ca concentration most of the time, but occasionally these homeostatic mechanisms fail, which results in hypocalcemia [3].

Differentially expressed serum proteins associated with calcium regulation and hypocalcemia in dairy cows

CASE REPORT: A 35-year-old male patient presented to the emergency room with history of multiple honey beestings. Patient bystanders give history that their family went to a temple on hill in a tractor when a swarm of bees attacked them.

A rare case of massive envenomation of honey bees with anaphylaxis

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