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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

lacteus

milky, fr.

lac

lactis

, milk. Cf.

Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky;

as, the

lacteal

fluid

(Anat. & Physiol.)

Pertaining to, or containing, chyle;

as, the

lacteal

vessels

Noun.

(Anat.)

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

Adj.

Pertaining to milk.

Conveying chyle; as a lacteal vessel.

Noun.

A vessel or slender tube of animal bodies, for conveying chyle from the intestines to the common reservatory.