Colostrum milk at 48 to 72 hours after parturition may be higher than in colostrum or in late-lactation milk. Fat concentration in bovine colostrum is extremely variable. Newborns have very immature and small digestive systems, and colostrum delivers its nutrients in a very concentrated low-volume form. It has a mild laxative effect, encouraging the passing of the baby's first stool, which is called meconium. This clears excess bilirubin, a waste-product of dead red blood cells, which is produced in large quantities at birth due to blood volume reduction from the infant's body and helps prevent jaundice. Colostrum is known to contain
Sesquilinear form to is Similarly, is orthogonal to with respect to , written (or simply if can be inferred from the context), when . This relation need not be symmetric, i.e. does not imply (but see "" below). A sesquilinear form is reflexive if, for all , That is, a sesquilinear form is reflexive precisely when the derived orthogonality relation is symmetric. A -sesquilinear form is called -Hermitian if there exists such that, for all , If , the form is called -"Hermitian", and if , it is called -"anti-Hermitian". (When is implied, respectively simply "Hermitian" or "anti-Hermitian".) For a nonzero -Hermitian