lacteal

adj

1. Relating to milk.
2. Relating to milk production.

   “lacteal ducts in the breasts”

3. Relating to, or containing, chyle.

   “the lacteal vessels”

noun

1. (in-plural)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. (obsolete)One of the lactiferous ducts or other components of milk-producing organs.