Lacteal

lak'te-al, a. Pert, to, or resembling, milk;; milky. (Anat.) Conveying chyle. — n. One of the minute tubes which convey the chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct— Lac'tate, n. (Client.) A salt formed; linger or ink, then, boNbON, chair, get. by the union of lactic acid, or acid of milk, with a base. — Lacta'tion, n. Act of giving suck, or time of suckling: secretion or excretion of milk.— Lac'tean, a. Milky; resembling, or consisting of, milk; conveying chyle. — Lac'teous, -te"-us, a. Milky; resembling milk; lacteal, conveying chyle. -Lactes'cence, -sens, n. Tendency to milk; milkine or milk3T color. {Bot.) The juice, Lacteals and Adjacent commonly white, which flows from o, aorta; 6, thoracic canal; some plants when phatic glands; rf. radicals chyliferous ve els; e, intestine wounded. — Lactes'- /, mesentery; g, lacteals. cent, a. Producing milk or white juice; abounding with a thick, colored juice. — Lactone eter, n. An instrument for taining the proportion of cream in milk; galactometer; a kind of hydrometer for ascertaining the of milk by noting its specific gravity. 230