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Definition of Lactiferous duct
1. Noun. Ducts of the mammary gland that carry milk to the nipple.
Group relationships: Boob, Bosom, Breast, Knocker, Tit, Titty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lactiferous Duct
Literary usage of Lactiferous duct
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"The granules of the breast, or its acini, give out, each of them, a tube or
lactiferous duct, which uniting with others from the same bunch or packet of ..."
2. Theory and Practice of Obstetrics Including Diseases of Pregnancy and by Pierre Cazeaux, Stéphane Tarnier (1889)
"As each lobe has its principal or lactiferous duct, the whole number of these
vessel? is the same, eg fifteen or twenty, as that of the lobes. ..."
3. A Textbook of the Science and Art of Obstetrics by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1902)
"The other is a milk fistula, a fistulous tract leading from the skin to a
lactiferous duct. This kind may also have originated in a mammary abscess which ..."
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