Lactate

Chem. [f. LACT-IC + -ATE⁴.] A salt of lactic acid.

1794.  Pearson, Table Chem. Nomencl., § 24. Lactates, compounds of Acid of Milk with different Bases.

1819.  J. G. Children, Chem. Anal., 317. Lactate of lead…; lactate of iron…; lactate of copper.

1899.  Cagney, trans. Jaksch’s Clin. Diagn., vi. (ed. 4), 234. Crystals of lactate of lime occur in the discharges of children.