Word Meanings - LACHRYMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions. Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland. Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct.

Related words: (words related to LACHRYMAL)

• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• GLAND
  The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing. (more info) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the
• SECRETARY
  secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
• GLANDAGE
  A feeding on nuts or mast. Crabb.
• SECRET
  segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut.
• GLANDERED
  Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. Yu
• GLANDULOUS
  Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
• LACHRYMAL
  1. Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions. Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland. Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct.
• SECRETNESS
  1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SECRETORY
  Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n.
• SECRETARIAT; SECRETARIATE
  The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
• GLANDULIFEROUS
  Bearing glandules.
• GLANDULOSE
  See GLANDULOUS
• SECRETITIOUS
  Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer.
• GLANDIFEROUS
  Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees.
• GLANDIFORM
  Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.
• LACHRYMALS
  Tears; also, lachrymal feelings or organs. People go to the theaters to have . . . their risibles and lachrymals set agoing. The Lutheran.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• NASOLACHRYMAL
  Connected with the lachrymal apparatus and the nose; as, the nasolachrymal, or lachrymal duct.
• PLOWLAND; PLOUGLAND
  the quantity of land allotted for the work of one plow; a hide. (more info) 1. Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.
• BIGLANDULAR
  Having two glands, as a plant.
• JUGLANDINE
  An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut .
• EXCITO-SECRETORY
  Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.