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
Example Sentences
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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.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The milk itself exits the breast through the nipple via 15 to 20 lactiferous ducts that open on the surface of the nipple.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The mammary gland is composed of milk-transporting lactiferous ducts, which expand and branch extensively during pregnancy in response to estrogen, growth hormone, cortisol, and prolactin.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Suckling stimulates the contraction of myoepithelial cells that squeeze milk into lactiferous ducts.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Microscopically, chicory shows numerous thin-walled parenchymatous cells, lactiferous vessels, and sieve tubes with transverse plates.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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