Encyclopedia: Lacteal
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A lacteal is a lymphatic capillary that absorbs dietary fats in the villi of the small intestine. The combination of fat and lymph in the lacteals is milky in appearance and called chyle. Individual ...
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Etymology: Latin lacteus of milk, from lact-, lac. Date: 1633. 1 : relating to, consisting of, producing, or resembling milk...
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Histology Learning System [ Digestive System: Alimentary Canal, jejunum, central lacteals] 117. Digestive System: Alimentary Canal jejunum, central lacteals ; © 2002 Oxford University Press jejunum, central lacteals...
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adjective. of or like milk; milky; containing or carrying chyle, the milky fluid that is a product of digestion. Etymology: < L lacteus, milky < lac (see...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on lacteal (anatomy), one of the lymphatic vessels that serve the small intestine and, after a meal, become white from the minute fat globules that their lymph contains (see chyle). The smallest of the lacteals are the lacteal capillaries, each a minute vessel running down the centre...
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lacteal vessels. Lacteal vessels. Information about Lacteal vessels in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. Before fat can pass into the lacteal, bile from the liver causes its emulsification into droplets small enough for attack by the enzyme lipase. The products of this digestion form...
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about lacteal. lacteal. Information about lacteal in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. Before fat can pass into the lacteal, bile from the liver causes its emulsification into droplets small enough for attack by the enzyme lipase. The products of this digestion form into even smaller...
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Some of these food molecules are carried away in the blood stream, but others, particularly fats, enter the lymphatic capillaries, the lacteals,
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lacteal - Biological definition of lacteal from A Dictionary of Biology at Encyclopedia.com.
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[lăḱtē-əl]
