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Noun
For serious training the features are unbeatable, as the fenix 8 can detect lactate threshold and even estimate VO2 Max, which usually requires an expensive treadmill test with specialized equipment.—Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 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
Verb
There are 150,000 pregnant and lactating women inside of Gaza who urgently need micro-nutrients as well to avoid those same consequences.—CBS News, 19 Jan. 2025 The amount will also be different for people who are pregnant or lactating.—Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2025 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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