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单词 lacteal
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lactealadj.n.

Brit. /ˈlaktɪəl/, U.S. /ˈlæktiəl/
Forms: Also 1600s lacteall.
Etymology: < Latin lacteus ( < lact-, lac milk) + -al suffix1.
A. adj.
1.
a. Of or pertaining to milk; consisting of milk. lacteal fever, milk fever.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk
milkeneOE
milkyc1449
lactary1646
lacteal1753
lactic1789
milchig1904
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Lacteal, or Lacteous, milky, milk white, or made of milk.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Lacteal fevers, a term used by medical writers, to express what the women call milk fevers.
1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 443 Restoring a certain degree of order in the process of lacteal secretion.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 230 The lacteal organs of the dugong are placed on the breast.
jocularly.1868 Daily Tel. 14 Apr. She proceeded very quietly to give him [her infant] a lacteal lunch.1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1885) 246 The animals [cows]..are driven home, there to yield their lacteal tribute.
b. Resembling milk; milk-white. rare.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as milk
milk-whiteOE
as white as milkOE
milkisha1398
milkya1398
milkc1450
milky-white1581
milkena1586
lacteal1633
lacteous1646
lactaceous1656
lactean1659
lactescent1758
milchy1890
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. xii. 19 Like the lacteall stones which heaven pave.
1658 [see sense A. 1a].
2. Of a vessel, etc. in the animal body: Conveying a milky fluid, sc. chyle.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > ducts > [adjective] > chyliferous vessels
lacteal1664
lacteous1692
lactean1901
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 66 The Stomach and guts, and their appendent Vessels, the lacteal Veins.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 57 There should have been some lacteal Veins formed.
1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 357 Substances which..the lacteal absorbents refuse to take up.
1843 J. J. G. Wilkinson tr. E. Swedenborg Animal Kingdom I. v. 144 They have lacteal vessels, or lymphatics.
B. n. plural.
1. Physiology. The lymphatic vessels of the mesentery, originating in the small intestine, and conveying the chyle from thence to the thoracic duct; chyliferous vessels.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > ducts > [noun] > chyliferous vessels
lacteous vein1653
lacteal1686
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 290 How it should pass the Lacteals, or with the blood through the other small capillaries.
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 63 Driving by their Peristaltick Motion the Chyle into the Lacteals.
1758 S. Johnson Idler 5 Aug. 137 He surely buys knowledge dear, who learns the use of the lacteals at the expence of his humanity.
1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 296 Air will be absorbed from it by the lacteals as well as chyle.
1822–34 Good's Bk. Nat. I. 275 The vessels are called lacteals, from the usual milky appearance of the liquid they absorb and contain.
1885–8 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) 169 The absorption by the lacteals of matters from the affected parts of the intestine.
2. Botany. The lactiferous ducts.
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1673 N. Grew Idea Phytol. Hist. ii. iii. 75 The Lacteals of Dandelyon.

Derivatives

ˈlacteally adv. (Webster 1864).
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