Usually means: Absorbs fats in small intestine.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word lacteal:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. lacteal: Merriam-Webster
  2. lacteal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lacteal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lacteal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lacteal: Vocabulary.com
  6. lacteal: Wordnik
  7. lacteal: Wiktionary
  8. lacteal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lacteal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lacteal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lacteal: Dictionary.com
  12. Lacteal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Lacteal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. lacteal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. lacteal: Rhymezone
  16. Lacteal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. lacteal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. lacteal: FreeDictionary.org
  19. lacteal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. lacteal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lacteal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lacteal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. lacteal: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lacteal)

adjective:  Relating to milk.
adjective:  (anatomy) Relating to milk production.
adjective:  Relating to, or containing, chyle.
noun:  (physiology, chiefly in the plural) Each of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the mesentery to the thoracic duct.
noun:  (obsolete) One of the lactiferous ducts or other components of milk-producing organs.

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