LACTEAL

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.

2.
a.

Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels.

3.
n.

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


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