Word Meanings - LACTEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.

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• CHYLE
  A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.
• LACTEALLY
  Milkily; in the manner of milk.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• FLUID
  Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• FLUIDAL
  Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; --
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• FLUIDRACHM
  See S
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• FLUIDITY
  The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aëriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• FLUIDIZE
  To render fluid.
• FLUIDOUNCE
  See FLUID
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• FLUIDNESS
  The state of being flluid; fluidity.
• LACTEAL
  Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.
• MILKY
  1. Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope. 2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice." Arbuthnot. 3. Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." Roscommon. 4. Mild; tame;
• ENCHYLEMMA
  The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• PASTEUR'S FLUID
  An artificial nutrient fluid invented by Pasteur for the study of alcoholic fermentation, but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other organisms. It contains all the elements of protoplasm, and was originally made of the ash of yeast,
• SEMIFLUID
  Imperfectly fluid. -- n.