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Found 5 hits - Term: lachrymal, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lachrymatory \lach"rymatory\, n.; pl. -ries. cf. f.
   lacrymatoire. antiq.
   a "tear-bottle;" a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers
   of the ancient romans; -- so called from a former notion that
   the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in
   it. called also lachrymal or lacrymal.
   1913 webster
see also:
ries lachrymal lacrymal 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lachrymal \lach"rymal\, a. cf. f. lacrymal. see lachrymose.
   1. of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions.
      1913 webster

   2. anat. pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the
      lachrymal gland.
      1913 webster

   3. anat. pertaining to the lachrymal2 organs; as,
      lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct.
      1913 webster lachrymal
see also:
lachrymose 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lachrymal \lach"rymal\, lacrymal \lac"rymal\, n.
   see lachrymatory.
   1913 webster
see also:
lachrymatory 
[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
lachrymal
     adj 1: of or relating to tears syn: lacrimal
     2: relating to or located near the organ that produces tears
        syn: lacrimal
see also:
lacrimal 
[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
46 moby thesaurus words for "lachrymal":
   bloody, blubbering, chylifactive, chylifactory, chylific, crying,
   dissolved in tears, excretory, humoral, ichorous, in tears,
   lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, phlegmy,
   purulent, pussy, ready to cry, rheumy, salivant, salivary,
   salivous, sanious, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal,
   serous, sialagogic, sniveling, sobbing, spermatic, suppurated,
   suppurating, suppurative, tearful, tearlike, teary, watering,
   watery, weeping, weepy, whimpering, with eyes suffused





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Lachrymal >> L Words
Lachrymal, definition of term: Lachrymal
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Lachrymal Gland >> L Words
Lachrymal Gland, definition of term: Lachrymal Gland
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