Definition of Lactiferous

1. a. Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.

Definition of Lactiferous

1. Adjective. Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lactiferous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Lactiferous

1. Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants. Origin: l. Lac, lactis, milk: cf. F. Lactifere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lactiferous

lactescences
lactescent
lactic
lactic acid
lactic acid bacillus
lactic acid bacteria
lactic acid dehydrogenase
lactic acid fermentation
lactic acid level
lactic acid oxidative decarboxylase
lactic acidemia
lactic acidosis
lactic dehydrogenase
lactide
lactides
lactiferous (current term)
lactiferous ampulla
lactiferous duct
lactiferous ducts
lactiferous gland
lactiferous sinus
lactific
lactifugal
lactifuge
lactifuges
lactigenous
lactigerous
lactim
lactimide
lactimides

Literary usage of Lactiferous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physiology of the Circulation in Plants, in the Lower Animals, and in by James Bell Pettigrew (1874)
"The lactiferous vessels of plants have been likened by Carpenter to the capillary ... The lactiferous vessels differ from the other vessels 1 Untersuchungen ..."

2. The Physiology of the Circulation in Plants, in the Lower Animals, and in by James Bell Pettigrew (1874)
"The lactiferous vessels of plants have been likened by Carpenter to the capillary ... The lactiferous vessels differ from the other vessels 1 Untersuchungen ..."

3. The London Medical Gazette (1850)
"That Mr. Birkett's view of the cause of what we should still be disposed to regard as an erect state of the nipple—viz , the distension of the lactiferous ..."

4. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Breast and Mammary Region by Alfred Velpeau (1856)
"The treatment of lactiferous fistulae is sometimes very difficult. During the time necessary to complete the suckling which may have been commenced, ..."

5. A Treatise on the Breast, and Its Surgical Diseases by Homer Irvin Ostrom (1885)
"B. lactiferous fistula consists in an abnormal communication between the skin and a lacteal tube, or any portion of the secreting surface. ..."

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