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Lactate
- noun - a salt or ester of lactic acid
- give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
Lacteal
- adjective - any of the lymphatic vessels that convey chyle from the small intestine to the thoracic duct
- relating to or consisting of or producing or resembling milk; "lacteal fluids"; "lacteal organs"
Lactean
- - Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk.
Lactide
- - A white, crystalline substance, obtained from lactic acid by distillation, and regarded as an anhydride; also, by extension, any similar substance.
Lactone
- - One of a series of organic compounds, being cyclic esters which may be regarded as anhydrides of certain hydroxy acids. In general, they are colorless liquids, having a weak aromatic odor. They are so called because the typical lactone is derived from lactic acid.
Lactose
- noun - a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk; "cow's milk contains about 4.7% lactose"
Lactuca
- noun - an herb with milky juice: lettuce; prickly lettuce
Lacunae
- noun - 1. a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
2. Anatomy. one of the numerous minute cavities in the substance of bone, supposed to contain nucleate cells.
- a blank gap or missing part
- an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
Lacunal
- unknown - 1 an empty space or a missing part, a gap; 2 anatomy: a cavity, space, or depression, especially in bone, containing cartilage or bone cells
- Concerning a gap in a manuscript.