lacteal

(lak’té-al), a. andn. [ (see lacteous), + -al.] I, a. 1. Pertaining to lactifical (lak-tif’i-kal), a. [« lactifie + -al.] or resembling milk; milky.—2. Conveying a Same as lactific. Coles, 1717. milk-like fluid; chyliferous: as, a lacteal ve el. lactiflorous (lak-ti-fl0’rus), a. [¢ L. lac(t-), II. ». In an at., one of numerous minute tubes milk, + jlos (fldr-), flower.] Having flowers which absorb or take up the chyle (a milk-like white like milk. Thomas, Med. Dict. fluid) from the alimentary canal-and convey it lactifugal (lak-tif’a-gal), a. [« laetifug(e) + to the thoracic duct. The lacteals are the radicles of -al.] Serving to check or stop the secretion of the lymphatic system of the alimentary canal, draining milk; having the property of a lactifuge. off the chyle or nutritive and a imilable material from lactifuge (lak’ti-fuj), ». [= F. lactifuge,