What does lacteal mean?
Lacteal means Relating to milk..
Lacteal
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
Relating to milk..
Definitions by Sense
- Relating to milk.
- (anatomy) Relating to milk production.
- Relating to, or containing, chyle.
- (physiology, chiefly in the plural) Each of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the mesentery to the thoracic duct.
- (obsolete) One of the lactiferous ducts or other components of milk-producing organs.
Example Sentences
lacteal ducts in the breasts
the lacteal vessels
These ‘veins’ must have been the lacteals or chyle-vessels, whose function was explained by Aselli some two thousand years later.
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Word Forms
- more lacteal
- most lacteal
- lacteals
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lacteal ducts in the breasts
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