(a.) Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions.
(a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland.
(a.) Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(2) After 6 h, radioactivity disappears in most organs, but remains notable in the kidney, lung and liver, as well as in the salivary and lachrymal glands.
(3) Therefore the proteins of lachrymal products are basic ones.
(4) Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of proteins encoded by hybrid-selected alpha 2u-globulin mRNA indicates that the liver and lachrymal translation products have different mobilities.
(5) Administration of oxotremorine to mice produced centrally-mediated effects, such as catalepsy and tremor, and peripheral muscarinic actions, such as diarrhoea and lachrymation.
(6) It was found that beta-adrenergic receptor blocking drugs may have a pharmacological effect on the lachrymal glands, but this was not associated with dry eyes or adverse reaction.
(7) It's characterized by lachrymation on the same side of the palsy in connection with stimulation of salivation (e.g.
(8) Thus, a plasma contribution is made to the IgA in tears, but greater than 99% of the tear IgA is synthesized locally in the lachrymal gland.
(9) Tissue levels were maximal within 20 min, except for lachrymal glands, thymus and brain.
(10) Marked concentration of radioactively labelled compounds was also observed in the liver, spleen, lachrymal and salivary glands, lymph nodes, mammary glands, skin, bone marrow, and, to a lesser extent, in the lung, kidney and skeletal muscle.
(11) At this time, however, high radioactive levels appear in the lachrymal gland, nasal mucosa, bone marrow and spleen, as well as in the urinary, digestive, respiratory and reproductive systems.
(12) This highlights the fact that only the children without lachrymal HIV IgA at the age of 9 months became seronegative at the age of 18 months.
(13) Branchio-oto-renal dysplasia is an autosomal dominant disorder in which affected individuals may have preauricular pits, lachrymal duct stenosis, hearing loss, branchial fistulas or cysts, structural defects of the outer, middle, and inner ear, and renal anomalies, which may range from mild hypoplasia to complete absence.
(14) In the majority of subjects where there was no uptake in the lachrymal gland, the effective dose equivalent reduces to 6.9 mSv.
(15) When the solution is moved at a velocity corresponding to that of lachrymal fluid at the surface of the human eye, the influence of viscosity may be neglected.
(16) has been localized on basolateral cell membranes of salt secreting cells in the lachrymal gland of Malaclemys.
(17) Using a DNase I footprinting assay, we find that expressing tissues (liver, lachrymal, and salivary gland) contain nuclear proteins that interact specifically with two sites in the third intron of a cloned gene.
(18) Among the possibilities suggested by these results is that alpha 2u-globulin genes expressed in liver and lachrymal glands under endocrine control are also expressed constitutively in the preputial gland.
(19) 7:1938-1946, 1987), we presented the sequences of the most abundant MUP mRNAs in the liver (MUP I, II, and III) and in the lachrymal (MUP IV) and submaxillary (MUP V) glands.
(20) Three weeks after surgical removal of the Harderian glands the lachrymal glands of 10-week-old fowls were heavier and contained more immunocompetent cells than the glands of intact and sham operated birds.
Lachrymose
Definition:
(a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
Example Sentences:
(1) She is deeply feeling for her country, her people and for those around her, and yet she has never been lachrymose.
(2) The prime minister's lachrymose performance had nothing to do with his agitated emotional state, Dmitry Peskov said, but was the result of an icy breeze whipping over the Kremlin's historic cobbles.
(3) Yanis Varoufakis: maverick economist with Greece’s fate in his hands Read more If Hardouvelis, had had his way the handover would have been uneventful, if a little lachrymose.
(4) But it had been a different week – no rallies, more fear than rage; stunned, lachrymose, frightened and frightening at every level and turn.
(5) But at the same time, lachrymose athletes are funny.
(6) But lachrymose apologies are neither the French nor Hollande's way.
(7) Eulogies have a tendency to be lachrymose and overblown but I don’t think it’s overstating the case to say that a part of British pop music has died with it.
(8) Arnett’s Gob Bluth – an insanely unintegrated magician , clueless cocksman and a champion of lachrymose self-loathing in times of crisis – stood out as a brilliant comic creation even among the monsters and gargoyles in the rest of the cast.
(9) The young women, in the book, alas, are both inspid and lachrymose.
(10) Lone Survivor is decidedly not The Green Berets, John Wayne's second feature as a director from 1968, deluded and lachrymose propaganda for a war that a majority of Americans by then already wanted to be over.
(11) It takes a lot to make this cynic weep, but I'm seriously waxing lachrymose now.
(12) The floodgates had burst even before half time, presaging the tidal wave of lachrymosity that was to engulf the country.