LACTEAL
\lˈakti͡əl], \lˈaktiəl], \l_ˈa_k_t_iə_l]\
Definitions of LACTEAL
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.
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Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels.
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One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel.
By Oddity Software
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Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.
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Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels.
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One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel.
By Noah Webster.
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Pertaining to, or like, milk; conveying the fluid called chyle, or lymph, which contains fats from digested food; as, lacteal ducts.
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The ducts which convey chyle, or fat-containing lymph, from the intestines to the thorax.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Pertaining to or resembling milk: conveying chyle.
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One of the absorbent vessels of the intestines which convey the chyle to the thoracic ducts.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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A concretion obstructing a lactiferous duct.
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Pertaining to milk.
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Any one of the intestinal lymphatics which take up chyle.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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