lactiferous
Americanadjective
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producing or secreting milk.
lactiferous glands.
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conveying milk or a milky fluid.
lactiferous ducts.
adjective
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producing, conveying, or secreting milk or a milky fluid
lactiferous ducts
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botany containing latex; laticiferous
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of lactiferous
1665–75; < New Latin lactifer that bears milk ( see lacti-, -fer) + -ous
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The milk itself exits the breast through the nipple via 15 to 20 lactiferous ducts that open on the surface of the nipple.
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During pregnancy, the body prepares for lactation by stimulating the growth and development of branching lactiferous ducts and alveoli lined with milk-secreting lactocytes, and by creating colostrum.
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Suckling stimulates the contraction of myoepithelial cells that squeeze milk into lactiferous ducts.
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Once milk is made in the alveoli, stimulated myoepithelial cells that surround the alveoli contract to push the milk to the lactiferous sinuses.
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Monotremata, development of the nictitating membrane in; lactiferous glands of; connecting mammals with reptiles.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
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