单词 | lacteal vein |
释义 | > as lemmaslacteal vein b. In full lacteal vein, †lacteous vein. Any of the lymphatic vessels through which chyle is conveyed from the intestines into the blood; spec. a lacteal (see lacteal n. 1). Also called milky vein. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > ducts > [noun] > chyliferous vessels lacteous vein1653 lacteal1686 1653 tr. J. Pecquet New Anat. Exper. i. 4 I, by the leave of so great men, would say that not any of them by a particular inquest have searched the Lurkings of these Lacteal Veins within the Thorax [L. Lactearum, intra Thoracem, Venarum latebras]. 1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6061 It hath been long in my thoughts and desires to have discovered the Actual passage of the Chyle in the Lacteous Veins. 1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) i. 29 The Food..is further subtiliz'd and render'd so fluid and penetrant, that the thinner and finer part of it easily finds its way in at the streight Orifices of the lacteous Veins. 1758 J. Mackenzie Hist. Health ii. i. 337 The lacteal veins pour their chyle into a sort of cistern or reservoir formed for that purpose between the lowest part of the diaphragm and the highest vertebre of the loins. 1800 J. Watkins Universal Biogr. Dict. at Pecquet (John) He immortalized his name by the discovery of the lacteal vein which conveys the chyle to the heart, and from him termed the reservoir of Pecquet. 1916 V. Maar in Thomae Bartholini Vasa Lymphatica 38/2 (note) As his predecessors in demonstrating the existence of the lacteal veins Thomas Bartholinus mentions Vesling, Folio, Gassendi, and Highmore. 1985 Jrnl. Hist. Biol. 18 351 (note) Harvey appealed again to the rapid evacuation of a large quantity of ingested fluid through the ureters, this time to refute the view that chyle was conveyed by the ‘lacteal veins’. < as lemmas |
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