(a.) Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Optical light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopy were used in investigations of epithelia in the glandular region of the milk cistern and greater lactiferous ducts and yielded the following findings, four and six hours from infection: degeneration and necrosis of epithelial cells, intraepithelial foreign cell infiltration (neutrophilic granulocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages), intra-epithelial oedema and locally delimited epithelial loss.
(2) MCA1-treated rats were significantly different from controls with the following parameters: shorter length of the nipples; smaller cross-sectional areas of the entire nipple, lactiferous duct lumen, and blood vessels; greater percentage of the analysis field composed of collagen; lower percentage of the analysis field composed of amorphous ground substance; and longer elastin fibers.
(3) Report on a big confluent cyst of lactiferous ducts in a IX.
(4) Adherence increased from teat sinus to lactiferous sinus to the large ducts, and cells from the lactiferous sinus to the large ducts, and cells from the lactiferous sinus were used for all other experiments.
(5) The 145 kDa protein bound to bovine fat globule membranes, human buccal epithelial cells, bovine lactiferous sinus epithelial cells and sheep erythrocytes.
(6) The defence capabilities elucidated included specific and unspecific activities of non-epithelial cells, primarily neutrophilic granulocytes, macrophages, lymphocytes, plasma cells, and mast cells, as well as the capability of epithelial cells proper of absorbing pathogenic material from lumens of lactiferous ducts and milk cisterns and of storing such material within intracytoplasmic vacuoles.
(7) Enzyme levels were lower in the epithelia of the teat sinus than of the lactiferous sinus.
(8) Galactography is an important method for the early diagnosis of breast carcinomas in lactiferous ducts.
(9) Permanent loss of nipple sensation was noted in 20% of cases when the lactiferous ducts were divided.
(10) Much dilemma exists as whether to divide the lactiferous ducts or not when correcting an inverted nipple.
(11) The Paget cells in these two conditions seem to have different origins, i.e., those of mammary Paget's disease ascend to the epidermis from lactiferous ducts, whereas those of extramammary Paget's disease originate in the epidermis itself.
(12) Seven of the eight cases had complete surgical excision of the lesion, which demonstrated the characteristic findings of dilated lactiferous ducts undergoing squamous metaplasia with rupture and surrounding extensive acute and chronic inflammation with foreign-body reaction.
(13) When squamous metaplasia of the lactiferous ducts occurs, the normal cuboidal epithelium lining the lactiferous ducts is replaced by squamous epithelium, leading to intraluminal accumulation of epithelial debris.
(14) Since estrogens accelerate the proliferation of lactiferous ducts in the center of breast, Ga-67 citrate may accumulate in it.
(15) Similarly, in lactating glands, the staining of myoepithelial cells is much weaker in the secretory alveoli than in lactiferous sinuses.
(16) This was considered to reflect active involvement of epithelium in antibacterial defence, and consequently, to reflect the role played by epithelium as a defence barrier in the milk cistern and greater lactiferous ducts.
(17) The levels of N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase (NAGase) and acid phosphatase were analysed in tissue from the teat and lactiferous sinus epithelia of dairy cows at different stages of lactation.
(18) It can be expected that a thorough examination of the porcine mamma during the stage of involution will discover disturbances of nursing, caused by lesions in the parenchyma or in the lactiferous ducts.
(19) Microdochectomy for persistent discharge from a single lactiferous duct is curative and gives a diagnosis of the cause.
(20) Histologically, dilated lactiferous ducts were seen filled with papillary, cribriform and solid growth of cells.
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.