Lacteal

Word LACTEAL
Character 7
Hyphenation lac te al
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Lacteal"

What do we mean by lacteal?

Of, relating to, or resembling milk. adjective

Of or relating to any of numerous minute intestinal lymph-carrying vessels that convey chyle from the intestine to lymphatic circulation and thereby to the thoracic duct. adjective

A lacteal vessel. noun

Pertaining to or resembling milk; milky.

Conveying a milk-like fluid; chyliferous: as, a lacteal vessel.

In anatomy, one of numerous minute tubes which absorb or take up the chyle (a milk-like fluid) from the alimentary canal and convey it to the thoracic duct. noun

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

Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky. adjective

Pertaining to, or containing, chyle. adjective

Relating to milk. adjective

Relating to milk production. adjective

Lactiferous ducts or other components of milk-producing organs. noun

Any of the lymphatic vessels that convey chyle from the small intestine to the thoracic duct noun

Relating to or consisting of or producing or resembling milk adjective

(chiefly in plural) Each of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the mesentery to the thoracic duct.

One of the lactiferous ducts or other components of milk-producing organs.

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The word "lacteal" in example sentences

Each villus contains a loop of blood-vessels, and another vessel, the lacteal, so called from the Latin word _lac_, milk, because of the milky appearance of the fluid it contains. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

If she is a girl, then she will be either become veal, like her brothers, or she will be raised to give birth to babies who are taken away from her, so that she too may be forced to provide "lacteal secretions" to satisfy the human population's demand for dairy products such as lacteal milk, lacteal cheese, lacteal yogurt, lacteal ice-cream, and lacteal sour-cream. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mahir, Saribah, Jamídah and other lacteal preparations, see ibid. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Fortune changes all; and those who discovered the circulation of the blood, the lacteal veins, and the thoracic canal, are the servants of those who have learned what concomitant grace is, and have forgotten it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

From whatever standpoint, therefore, we view the lacteal product of these four-footed giants, we are fully warranted in ascribing to it not only extreme richness, but also great delicacy of flavor. ❋ Various (N/A)

Miss Vyvyan who heard it all did not take any notice of her, but went on with apparent indifference, pursuing her lacteal occupation. ❋ Anna W. Ford Piper (N/A)

However, this was not the end of the cow episode by any means; for, as luck would have it, all Captain Miles 'hopes of milk with his coffee during the voyage home to England were soon summarily dispelled, the career of the animal which was to have supplied the lacteal fluid having terminated most unexpectedly. ❋ J. [Illustrator] Schonberg (N/A)

After but a brief experience of this seductive beverage, it may speedily be felt how, once digested and assimilated, it courses through the lymph channels and lacteal vessels and, by the familiar route of the Chyle passes into the heart, where joined with the blood of that organ, it produces a sensation of liquifaction. ❋ Louis Dechmann (N/A)

They are like the lacteal sustenance that is yielded by the mother's breast. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

But the milk of an animal recently calved is reserved for its young, and it is not until the time of weaning that the lacteal fluid is offered for human consumption. ❋ Various (N/A)

Villus showing both the lacteal and the capillaries. ❋ Francis M. Walters (N/A)

When Pet, Bell, Blanche and Daisy, with their large udders full of rich lacteal fluid, heard the news, "It is a boy," they gave forth an extra flow of milk that night. ❋ Edward Eldridge (N/A)

The St. Mary thistle grows at the foot of the walls in knots of large, spreading, crinkled leaves, beautifully scalloped at the edges; the glazed surface reticulated with lacteal veins, retaining the milk that, according to the legend, flowed from the Virgin's breast, and, forming the Milky ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

And there isn't anything I like better when camping out than plenty of hen fruit, together with the lacteal fluid from the cows. ❋ Lawrence J. Leslie (N/A)

The state also of the stomach and bowels and the diet of the nurse materially and constantly influence the nature of the lacteal secretion. ❋ Edward Morton (N/A)

This is exceedingly damaging to the Clique firm; and as it is very painful indeed to be the other thing, since it makes sore heads and brings on a tendency to "bust," requiring much careful nursing to recover from the effect, the Clique family is always careful to arrange every thing in a manner that shall best insure the monopoly of the lacteal element to itself. ❋ Various (N/A)

Some saccharine substances, a little fat, but mostly albumen and vegetable caseine, that is to say, the substance which predominates in their lacteal secretions. ❋ Various (N/A)

Now in the pastoral realms of Finance, it is an odd fact that not only is the milk all cream, and golden cream into the bargain, but it is sometimes hard to tell which are the dairy-maids and which are the kindly animals with the crumpled horns which furnish the lacteal supply which is so particularly sought after. ❋ Various (N/A)

He described correctly the action of the epiglottis in preventing the entrance of food and drink into the windpipe during the act of swallowing, he saw the lacteal vessels in the mesentery, and pursued further the anatomy of the brain. ❋ Various (N/A)

Kshirapah means those that depend on the lacteal sustenance, hence, little children. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

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