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Definition of Lacteals
1. lacteal [n] - See also: lacteal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacteals
Literary usage of Lacteals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"The only reason for the special name of lacteals is that, ... Hence for the better
understanding of absorption by the lacteals it will be desirable to study ..."
2. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1889)
"The only reason for the special name of lacteals is that, ... Hence for the better
understanding of absorption by the lacteals it will be desirable to study ..."
3. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1875)
"It was owing to the opacity and visibility of the lacteals during digestion that
these vessels were discovered in 1622 by ..."
4. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"OF THE lacteals AND LYMPHATICS OF THE INTESTINAL CANAL. We shall afterwards have
to observe the great length of the intestinal canal, the effect of the ..."
5. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene: For Educational Institutions and by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison (1895)
"MAGNIFIED 100 DIAMETERS a, b, and c, lacteals ; rf, bloodvessels 9. Absorption of
the lacteals. — "The force by which the milky fluid moves upward through ..."
6. How to Work with the Microscope by Lionel Smith Beale (1870)
"The lacteals may be demonstrated when filled with chyle at the time of death.
... It should be examined immediately or the lacteals will become emptied ..."
7. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene for Educational Institutions and by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison (1875)
"The lacteals receive their name from their milky-white appearance. ... The lacteals
all unite to form one tube, the thoracic duct, which passes upward ..."
8. Physiological Chemistry by Karl Gotthelf Lehmann, George Edward Day (1854)
"All experiments made with the view of explaining the process of absorption by
the lacteals, refer solely to the mechanism of the continuous motion of the ..."
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