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PRACTICAL ANATOMY. 



the mesentery. They begin in a plexiform arrangement 

 in the villi of the intestines, unite to form two or three 



FIG. 114. LACTEALS DURING INTESTINAL, DIGESTION. 

 A, lacteals of mesentery ; B, mesenteric glands ; C, efferent chyle-ducts ; D, receptaculum chyli. 



large trunks, and empty into the thoracic duct. They 

 run between the layers of the mesentery and communi- 



