| 单词 | milk duct |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk duct milk duct n. Anatomy †(a) a lacticiferous vessel of a plant (cf. milk tube n. (c)); (b) any of the ducts that convey milk from the secretory lobules of the mammary gland to the nipple. ΚΠ 1868 S. W. Johnson How Crops Grow 281 There is, in many plants, a system of irregularly branched channels containing a milky juice... These milk-ducts..are imperfectly understood. 1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 18 Oct. 509/2 There is nothing yet discovered in the habits of these germs that should compel them to enter at once the milk-ducts, leaving the flesh and muscles free. 1937 Surg., Gynecol. & Obstetr. 64 594/1 Contrast fluids..are injected directly into the milk ducts, thus giving an accurate roentgenographic pattern of the ductal and secretory system of the mammary gland. 1995 Mother & Baby June 48/1 The hormone oxytocin makes the muscle fibres around the milk glands contract and squeeze the milk into the milk ducts. < as lemmas |
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