lacteal

Of, relating to, or resembling milk.

Of or relating to any of numerous minute intestinal lymph-carrying vessels that convey chyle from the intestine to lymphatic circulation and thereby to the thoracic duct.

A lacteal vessel.

Pertaining to or resembling milk; milky.

Conveying a milk-like fluid; chyliferous: as, a lacteal vessel.

In anatomy, one of numerous minute tubes which absorb or take up the chyle (a milk-like fluid) from the alimentary canal and convey it to the thoracic duct.

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

Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky.

Pertaining to, or containing, chyle.

Relating to milk.