(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.
(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels.
(n.) One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the SP and CGRP-containing nerves in problem might be sensory in nature, possibly monitoring mechanical information from the lumen and wall of the central lacteal.
(2) The interconnected central lacteals in the villi overlying the interfollicular area were connected with the lymphatic plexus in the area.
(3) Likewise, a range of behavioural, physiological, lactational and lacteal changes related to other stressors are the effects of different types of stress.
(4) The passage of cells across the lymphatic endothelium of rat lacteals in both normal and non-pathological experimental conditions (fasting, lymphatic, stasis) was studied by means of serial thin sections and three-dimensional models.
(5) In the rats, Pu was retained in the epithelial cells on villi, but in the guinea pigs and primates it was confined to the macrophages under the epithelial cells in the lacteal region.
(6) These particles were present in the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus, and in intercellular spaces and lacteals; they were most abundant in mucosa from mid-jejunum.
(7) These particles, morphologically similar to chylomicrons, were also present as aggregates of well-individualized lipid droplets within dilated vesicles in the Golgi zone, but were not seen in the intercellular spaces and lacteals.
(8) In contrast to these findings, IgM levels were found to be higher in lacteal secretions of first-litter sows and in piglet serum during the first days of life as compared to their counterparts.
(9) Histological and ultrastructural morphometry was performed on villous epithelium, stroma, blood vessels and lacteals at the three levels.
(10) Villi in the upper small intestine were broader than those in the lower small intestine, and contained two to five lacteals.
(11) The presence of a vestigial, lacteal incisor tooth is described in the laboratory rat.
(12) During fat absorption, chylomicrons with sizes up to 5,000-10,000 A must traverse an interstitium that has estimated pore sizes of 120-200 A to reach the lacteals.
(13) Although the above-described findings essentially coincide with our previous observations in canine duodenum (Ichikawa et al., 1991), the present study in the ileum demonstrated occasional nerve fibers protruding into the lacteal lumen with a knob-like swelling.
(14) Epithelial cell islands from fibroadenomas and from normal lacteal secretions completely excluded the fibroblasts, and individual cell territories were maintained even in dense cultures.
(15) Nevertheless, the standard score of weight at six months of age, compared with that previous to the introduction of lacteal supplements, did not differ significantly.
(16) The association between bovine lactoferrin and the major bovine whey proteins, beta-lactoglobulin, alpha-lactalbumin and albumin has been studied by immunochemical techniques, gel filtration and affinity chromatography in lacteal secretions and using purified proteins.
(17) The appearance time is defined as the time between placement of radioactive fatty acid into the intestinal lumen and the appearance of radioactive lipid in the central lacteal.
(18) Most of the bulbar structures of the nerve fibers are in contact with or surrounded by the central lacteal endothelial cells.
(19) An entero-mammary cell circulation provides the mechanism for conveying such specificity to the lacteal IgA antibodies.
(20) Individual villi in the lower intestine contained only one central lacteal that drained through a thin lymphatic in the glandular layer into the submucosal lymphatic plexus.
Milk
Definition:
(n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.
(n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
(n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
(n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
(v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
(v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
(v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
(v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(3) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(4) Four patients with acute brucellosis are described, none of whom had any connexion with farming or milk industry, the source of infection being different in each case.
(5) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(6) In contrast, human breast milk contained substantially increased levels of immunoreactive PTHrP.
(7) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(8) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(9) The presence of BLG in human milk is a common finding in both atopic and non-atopic mothers.
(10) The overall result of this system has been to decrease the coefficients of variation to below 5% for all the milk and serum proteins tested.
(11) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(12) Leukocytes were isolated by centrifugation from milk collected at postinjection hour 16.
(13) Postpartum milk samples from 61 heifers and 24 tissues from 2 reactor cattle were culture-negative for B abortus.
(14) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(15) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
(16) Increasing dietary protein percent raised milk protein percent but not protein yield or yield of other milk components, milk yield, SCM yield, or DM intake.
(17) It was also established that the Y. enterocolitica strains isolated from raw cow milk did not refer to the European serotypes 0:3 and 0:9 that were pathogenic for humans.
(18) The major lipase in human milk is dependent on bile salts for activity and probably participates in intestinal digestion of milk lipids in the newborn.
(19) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(20) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.