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Definition of Lactiferous
1. a. Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.
Definition of Lactiferous
1. Adjective. Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lactiferous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Lactiferous
1. Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants. Origin: l. Lac, lactis, milk: cf. F. Lactifere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lactiferous
Literary usage of Lactiferous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Physiology of the Circulation in Plants, in the Lower Animals, and in by James Bell Pettigrew (1874)
"The lactiferous vessels of plants have been likened by Carpenter to the capillary
... The lactiferous vessels differ from the other vessels 1 Untersuchungen ..."
2. The Physiology of the Circulation in Plants, in the Lower Animals, and in by James Bell Pettigrew (1874)
"The lactiferous vessels of plants have been likened by Carpenter to the capillary
... The lactiferous vessels differ from the other vessels 1 Untersuchungen ..."
3. The London Medical Gazette (1850)
"That Mr. Birkett's view of the cause of what we should still be disposed to regard
as an erect state of the nipple—viz , the distension of the lactiferous ..."
4. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Breast and Mammary Region by Alfred Velpeau (1856)
"The treatment of lactiferous fistulae is sometimes very difficult. During the
time necessary to complete the suckling which may have been commenced, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Breast, and Its Surgical Diseases by Homer Irvin Ostrom (1885)
"B. lactiferous fistula consists in an abnormal communication between the skin
and a lacteal tube, or any portion of the secreting surface. ..."
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