The nurse is educating a pregnant patient who expects to breastfeed. The nurse knows that when a patient breastfeeds, which portions of the breast secrete milk?

a. Lactiferous sinuses
b. Lobes
c. Montgomery's glands
d. Alveoli


ANS: D
The alveoli secrete milk.

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