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Lacteal   Listen
adjective
Lacteal  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.
2.
(Anat. & Physiol.) Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels.






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"Lacteal" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the Bharata race, the handsome daughters of the king of Kasi, having obtained the child, soon drenched it with their lacteal streams. The king ascertaining everything, was filled with joy, and addressing that female cannibal disguised as a human being possessing the complexion of gold, asked,—O thou of the complexion of the filament of the lotus, who art thou that givest me this child? O ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Part 2 • Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

... he studied at Alexandria, then the home of science. He, justly malcontent with quadrupeds, dissected apes, as coming nearer to man, and bled like a Trojan. Then came Theophilus, who gave us the nerves, the lacteal vessels, ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade

... 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 ...
— The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson

... went to work, and milked not only the new cow but also two of the others. By this time milking was over, and the lacteal fluid was carried to the spring-house to cool. Then the cows were allowed to wander down to the pasture ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.

... of a milky colour, separated from the chyme by the action of the pancreatic juice and the bile, and which, being absorbed by the lacteal vessels, is gradually ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood



Words linked to "Lacteal" :   lymph vessel



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