Lacteal
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Lacteal is an adjective meaning Relating to milk.
Meaning
Relating to milk.
More Meanings
- (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
the lacteal vessels
lacteal ducts in the breasts
These ‘veins’ must have been the lacteals or chyle-vessels, whose function was explained by Aselli some two thousand years later.
Word Forms
- lacteals
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include radicle, absorbents, lactaceous, lactational, lactic, lactatemic.
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