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C. OP THE LACTEAL GLANDS. 



§210. 



The lacteal glands (glandulce lactifercz) are a pair of com- 

 pound racemose glands, which, in the male, are only rudi- 

 mentary, but in the female fully developed, and, after partu- 

 rition, secrete the milk. 



With respect to their structure, the lacteal glands, in all 

 essential particulars, completely correspond with the larger 

 racemose glands, for instance the parotid and the pancreas. 

 Each gland consists of 15 — 24 or more, irregular, flattened 

 lobes, J" to 1" wide, with a rounded, angular outline, which, 

 although their cavities are quite distinct from each other, can- 

 not externally always be definitely separated. Each is com- 

 posed of a certain number of smaller and smallest lobules, and 

 these, lastly, of gland-vesicles. The latter are rounded, or 

 pyriform, 005 — OW" in size, with a distinct constriction be- 

 tween them ; and the smallest excretory ducts, as, for instance, 

 in the small mucous glands, and as everywhere else, are formed 

 of a structureless membrane and tesselated epithelium, which, 



