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lacteal

adj

Etymology

lacto- + -al

Definitions

  1. Relating to milk.

  2. Relating to milk production.

    • lacteal ducts in the breasts

  3. Relating to, or containing, chyle.

    • the lacteal vessels
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Each of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the mesentery to the thoracic duct.

      • These ‘veins’ must have been the lacteals or chyle-vessels, whose function was explained by Aselli some two thousand years later.

    2. One of the lactiferous ducts or other components of milk-producing organs.

The neighborhood

Derived

lacteally, prelacteal, protolacteal

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lacteal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at lacteal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at lacteal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA