lacteal
Adjective
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Adjective
lacteal
- Relating to milk.
- (anatomy) Relating to milk production.
- lacteal ducts in the breasts
- Relating to, or containing, chyle.
- the lacteal vessels
- lactating
- lactation
lacteal (plural lacteals)
- (physiology, chiefly, in plural) Each of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the mesentery to the thoracic duct.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 65:
- These ‘veins’ must have been the lacteals or chyle-vessels, whose function was explained by Aselli some two thousand years later.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 65:
- (obsolete) One of the lactiferous ducts or other components of milk-producing organs.
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