NOUN
- any of the lymphatic vessels that convey chyle from the small intestine to the thoracic duct
ADJECTIVE
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relating to or consisting of or producing or resembling milk
lacteal fluids
lacteal organs
How To Use lacteal In A Sentence
- Some saccharine substances, a little fat, but mostly albumen and vegetable caseine, that is to say, the substance which predominates in their lacteal secretions. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
- lacteal fluids
- 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. A Practical Physiology
- In regard to profuse lacteal flow, Remy is quoted as having seen a young woman in Japan from whom was taken 12 1/2 pints of milk each day, which is possibly one of the most extreme instance of continued galactorrhea on record. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- In regard to profuse lacteal flow, Remy is quoted 9.89 as having seen a young woman in Japan from whom was taken 12 1/2 pints of milk each day, which is possibly one of the most extreme instance of continued galactorrhea on record. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- 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 Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
- 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. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
- By these means the irritative movements of the stomach are excited into greater action than is natural; and in consequence all the irritative tribes and trains of motion, which are catenated with them, become susceptible of stronger action from their accustomed stimuli; because these motions are excited both by their usual irritation, and by their association with the increased actions of the stomach and lacteals. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- The study of the kind of lacteal feeding of 667 and 294 children admitted to an Assistential Hospital of S. Paulo City in 1969 and 1972, showed a reduction of breast feeding, in the first year of life, from 5.84% in 1969 to 3.61% in 1972, and of mixed feeding from 5.54% to 4.41%.
- Lacteal makeup can complete cleanness does not stimulate water to skin sensitively flimsily however.