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Lactate threshold

Lactate threshold refers to a point during a graded exercise test when the blood lactate concentration increases abruptly.

Lactational amenorrhea method

Lactational amenorrhea method or LAM refers to a method of avoiding pregnancies based on the postpartum infertility that many women experience when they are breast-feeding.

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Lactic acid

Lactic acid refers to an end-product of glucose metabolism in the glycolytic pathway; formed in conditions of inadequate oxygen and in muscle fibers with few mitochondria.

Lactobacillus

Lactobacillus refers to bacterium in the vagina that helps maintain appropriate pH levels.

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Lactose

Lactose refers to the sugar in milk.

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LAD

LAD is the abbreviations of Language acquisition device that refers to Chomsky’s term for the innate knowledge of grammar that humans were said to possess-knowledge that might enable young children to infer the rules governing others’ speech and to use these rules to produce language. In psycholinguistic theory, LAD is a neural "prewiring" that facilitates the child's learning of grammar.

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LAD (Language-Acquisition Device)

- LAD (Language-Acquisition Device) : LAD is the acronym of Language-Acquisition Device which is defined as a biologically innate mechanism that facilitates language acquisition

Laissez faire

Laissez faire refers to a policy of letting people do as they please; permissive.

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