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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.

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  • 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.

 

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