Synonyms for lacteal
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : lak-tee-uh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlæk ti əl |
Top 10 synonyms for lacteal Other synonyms for the word lacteal
Définition of lacteal
Origin :- 1650s, formed in English from Latin lacteus, from lac (genitive lactis) "milk," from PIE root *glakt- (see lactation) + -al (1).
- As in milky : adj white, cloudy
- They do not pass into the veins, but are taken up by the lacteal absorbents.
- Extract from : « The Action of Medicines in the System » by Frederick William Headland
- I took a seven-year course in the gentle art of acquiring the lacteal fluid.
- Extract from : « Fore! » by Charles Emmett Van Loan
- Many are its lacteal sources; and the clocks' hands point forever to milking time.
- Extract from : « Cabbages and Kings » by O. Henry
- The general public subscribes to Mudie, and has its intellectual, like its lacteal sustenance, sent round to it in carts.
- Extract from : « Obiter Dicta » by Augustine Birrell
- By this time milking was over, and the lacteal fluid was carried to the spring-house to cool.
- Extract from : « From Farm to Fortune » by Horatio Alger Jr.
- The lacteal secretion is influenced in a very remarkable manner by the mental conditions of the mother.
- Extract from : « Plain Facts for Old and Young » by John Harvey Kellogg
- After birth, the mother still possesses a molding influence upon the development of her child through the lacteal secretion.
- Extract from : « Plain Facts for Old and Young » by John Harvey Kellogg
- If it be a milk-cow, the lacteal secretion is diminished, and the udder is hot and tender.
- Extract from : « The American Reformed Cattle Doctor » by George Dadd
- Lacteal, lak′te-al, adj. pertaining to or resembling milk: conveying chyle.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
- Her expressionless face certainly did suggest a lacteal dulness.
- Extract from : « The Confounding of Camelia » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Antonyms for lacteal
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