English Collins Dictionary-English synonyms & Thesaurus &nbsp. nurse (nurses plural & 3rd person present) (nursing present participle) (nursed past tense & past participle) 1 n-count; n-title; n-voc A nurse is a person whose job is to care for people who are ill. She had spent 29 years as a nurse..., Patients were dying because of an acute shortage of nurses. 2 verb If you nurse someone, you care for them when they are ill. All the years he was sick my mother had nursed him... V n She rushed home to nurse her daughter back to health.
Mastitis: Inflammation of one or more mammary glands within the breast, usually in a lactating woman. Mastitis can be felt as a hard, sore spot within the breast. Mastitis can be caused by an infection in the breast or by a plugged milk duct.
429INTRODUCTION Mastitis, although an animal welfare problem, is a food safety problem and is the biggest economic problem. Mastitis is characterized by physical, chemical and bacteriological changes in the milk and pathological changes in the glandular tissue of the udder (Sharma, 2007).It is also defined as inflammation of mammary gland parenchyma, which is caused by bacteria and its toxins (Sharma et al., 2006).ormally, in milk from a healthy mammary gland, the SCC is lower than 1Ã10 5 cells/ml, while bacterial infection can cause it to increase to above 1Ã10 6 cells/ml (Bytyqi et al., 2010). FUNCTION OF SOMATIC CELLS Mastitis is caused by bacterial invasion into the udder.