What's the difference between lactean and milky?

Lactean


Definition:

  • (a.) Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk.
  • (a.) Lacteal; conveying chyle.

Example Sentences:

Milky


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or containing, milk.
  • (a.) Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice."
  • (a.) Yielding milk.
  • (a.) Mild; tame; spiritless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Autopsy revealed massive milky ascites and a large mesenteric mass, which showed histologically perivascular concentric deposition of eosinophilic materials with mixture of residual follicles and scattered plasma cells.
  • (2) Esophageal stenosis was diagnosed in a 7-day-old Thoroughbred foal referred for evaluation of bilateral milky nasal discharge.
  • (3) During atriotomy of the right atrium, a large sausage-shaped mass of milky-pinkish color was found.
  • (4) At night, the sky is hung with a million jewels, clouded only by the Milky Way.
  • (5) Despite the absence of germinative centres, the appearance of a great number of lymphoblasts and plasma cells in the milky spots provides the evidence of the active antibody production aimed at immunological protection of abdominal cavity.
  • (6) The mediastinal milky spots were generally covered with plump mesothelial cells with hemidesmosome-like structures in small projections of the cytoplasm, and consisted mainly of clusters of lymphocytes, macrophages and fibroblasts.
  • (7) Perhaps pop stars are simply too arch or self-conscious to write from the heart about their dreams of a white Christmas; with everybody having fun and Santa bringing that sleigh all along the Milky Way.
  • (8) The enigmatic patience of the sentences, the pedantic syntax, the peculiar antiquity of the diction, the strange recessed distance of the writing, in which everything seems milky and sub-aqueous, just beyond reach – all of this gives Sebald his particular flavour, so that sometimes it seems that we are reading not a particular writer but an emanation of literature.
  • (9) In addition, chance samples of handled foods, crude milk and milky fermented derivates (MFD) were studied.
  • (10) Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the milky spots using a panel of monoclonal antibodies, especially antibodies (ER-MP) that recognize macrophage precursor antigens.
  • (11) Thoracocentesis yielded a milky fluid with a high triglyceride level.
  • (12) Moreover, milky spots can firstly be a local source of potent immune effector cells i.e.
  • (13) In two cases, postmortem findings showed milky white, shiny, clotted lumps in the heart, with a fatty acid composition resembling that of fat emulsions.
  • (14) injection the labeled macrophages were found deeper in the milky spots.
  • (15) What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.
  • (16) The milky spots contained also large lymphocytes and plasma cells.
  • (17) Photograph: Joel van Houdt for The Guardian "I wanted to make it as luxurious as possible," said Barakzai in a tiny office at the base of the tower, where staff drank sweet, milky coffee he swore was the best in Kabul, and cans of Red Bull.
  • (18) All of these patients' cases were associated with a concurrent external chylous fistula, as evidenced by the appearance of a milky fluid confirmed to be chyle by chemical determination.
  • (19) There was no gynecomastia, but a white milky secretion could easily be expressed from each breast.
  • (20) Check in to your tiled room with its hard-working ceiling fan (aircon is optional), then walk straight again, into the milky-green water of the Gulf of Mexico.

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