Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Conveying or producing milk; lactiferous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.
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- adjective anatomy
Milk -carrying; applied to theducts ofmammary glands .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek. Compare lactiferous.
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Examples
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The Lymphatic Vessels of the Mamma originate in a plexus in the interlobular spaces and on the walls of the galactophorous ducts.
VIII. The Lymphatic System. 7. The Lymphatic Vessels of the Thorax 1918
reesetee commented on the word galactophorous
Bearing milk; lactiferous.
February 9, 2008