lacteal

adjective

Of, relating to, or resembling milk.

adjective

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.

noun

A lacteal vessel.

Pertaining to or resembling milk; milky.

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

noun

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.

noun

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

adjective

Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky.

adjective

Pertaining to, or containing, chyle.

adjective

Relating to milk.