lacteal

comparative more lacteal · superlative most lacteal

1. Relating to milk.
2. anatomyRelating to milk production.

   lacteal ducts in the breasts

3. Relating to, or containing, chyle.

   the lacteal vessels

plural lacteals

1. in pluralmedicineEach of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the mesentery to the thoracic duct.

   These ‘veins’ must have been the lacteals or chyle-vessels, whose function was explained by Aselli some two thousand years later.

   1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 65

2. obsoleteOne of the lactiferous ducts or other components of milk-producing organs.