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Definition of Lacteal

1. Adjective. Relating to or consisting of or producing or resembling milk. "Lacteal organs"

2. Noun. Any of the lymphatic vessels that convey chyle from the small intestine to the thoracic duct.

Definition of Lacteal

1. a. Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.

2. n. One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel.

Definition of Lacteal

1. Adjective. Relating to milk. ¹

2. Adjective. (anatomy) Relating to milk production. ¹

3. Noun. Lactiferous ducts or other components of milk-producing organs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lacteal

1. a lymphatic vessel [n -S]

Medical Definition of Lacteal

1. 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid. 2. Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels. Origin: L. Lacteus milky, fr. Lac, lactis, milk. Cf. Galaxy, Lettuce. One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacteal

lactate level lactated lactated Ringer's injection lactated Ringer's solution lactates lactating lactating adenoma lactation lactation amenorrhoea lactation hormone

lactational lactational mastitis lactations lactatriaosylceramide beta 1-3 galactosyltransferase lacteal (current term) lacteal cyst lacteal fistula lacteal vessel lacteally lacteals

lactean lactenin lacteous lactescence lactescences lactescent lactic lactic acid lactic acid bacillus

Literary usage of Lacteal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"by the employment of tonics, and the administration of acids. the gland, or to debility on the p»rt lacteal TUMOR.—It may happen during lactation that one ..."

2. Principles of Human Physiology: With Their Chief Applications to Pathology by William Benjamin Carpenter, Meredith Clymer (1843)
"their apex; and this cavity communicates with the lacteal vessels, being capable of ... Oneof the intestinal villi, with the commencement of a lacteal. ..."

3. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"THE lacteal Glands are two large, symmetrical organs, which are only fully developed in ... During the later half of pregnancy, the lacteal glands increase ..."

4. Human physiology, statical and dynamical, or, The conditions and course of by John William Draper (1878)
"lacteal Absorption.—Description of a Villas.—Analogies in Plants. ... The lacteal vessels may be described as delicate tubes, conveying ma- Description of ..."

5. The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1824)
"MY DEAR SIR, AGREEABLY to your wishe?, I herewith send you a brief account of my dissection of the lacteal system in the seal, and have prefixed to it a ..."

6. Manual of Human Histology by Albert Kölliker, George Busk (1854)
"C. OP THE lacteal GLANDS. §210. The lacteal glands (glandula ... With respect to their structure, the lacteal glands, in all essential particulars, ..."

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