Lacteal

Lacteal - Other Definitions

• (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.
  
  
• (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels.
  
  
• (n.) One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel.
  
  
• (adv.) Milkily; in the manner of milk.