lacteals in English

noun
1
the lymphatic vessels of the small intestine that absorb digested fats.
The lymphatics or lacteals blocked with fat deposits are seen on electron microscopy on small bowel endoscopic biopsies.

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1. The lacteals of villi are part of the lymphatic system.

2. Medical definition of Ampullula: a minute ampulla (as of the lymphatics or lacteals).

3. Johann Veslingius drew the earliest sketches of the lacteals in humans in 1647.

4. But, he still believed that the lacteals carried the chyle to the liver (as taught by Galen).

5. Thus, it was proven convincingly that the lacteals did not terminate in the liver, thus disproving Galen's second idea: that the chyle flowed to the liver.

6. Chyle definition is - lymph that is milky from emulsified fats, characteristically present in the lacteals, and most apparent during intestinal absorption of fats.

7. What does Chyle mean? A milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fat extracted from chyme by the lacteals during digestion and passed to

8. Chyle is a milky, white, opalescent fluid that is formed when long-chain triglycerides in the diet are transformed into chylomicrons and very-low-density lipoproteins, which are then secreted into intestinal lacteals

9. The findings of Ruphus and Herophilos were further propagated by the Greek physician Galen, who described the lacteals and mesenteric lymph nodes which he observed in his dissection of apes and pigs in the 2nd century AD.

10. Chyle A milky alkaline fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fat that is absorbed into fine ducts called lacteals in the lining of the intestine after a fatty meal. Chyle is carried by lymph vessels into the bloodstream

11. The lacteals were termed the fourth kind of vessels (the other three being the artery, vein and nerve, which was then believed to be a type of vessel), and disproved Galen's assertion that chyle was carried by the veins.

12. He traced this fluid to the thoracic duct, which he then followed to a chyle-filled sac he called the chyli receptaculum, which is now known as the cisternae chyli; further investigations led him to find that lacteals' contents enter the venous system via the thoracic duct.