(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.
Lacrymal
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Lacrymal
(n.) See Lachrymatory.
(n. & a.) See Lachrymatory, n., and Lachrymal, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dacryography is the only means of exploring the permeability of the lacrymal ducts and to conclude as the whether watering of the eyes is organic or functional.
(2) The authors made cellular immunological investigations with lacrymal and salivary gland antigens on 11 Sjögren's syndrome patients.
(3) There were few complications overall for this form of endonasal surgery, though the possibility of damage to the lacrymal duct does exist.
(4) It appears to be a safe, efficacious and a less traumatizing procedure preserving the lacrymal function without skin incision.
(5) The lacrymal and salivary condition is almost constant during systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, simple biliary cirrhosis and mixed connectivity.
(6) Our Area is a privileged place in the lacrymal pathology studying.
(7) The reduction of the lacrymal flow induced corneal lesions in all 11 patients and 6 patients suffered permanent visual impairment.
(8) The digital subtraction dacryocystogram provided excellent demonstration of the lacrymal sac and of the tear ducts, but there is little diagnostic gain when compared with the conventional technique.
(9) Females developed accumulations of dried salivary, nasal and lacrymal secretions in the facial region although a male did not.
(10) The ophthalmological diseases are classified as follows: a) eye-lids; b) cornea; c) sclera and conjunctiva; d) anterior chamber, iris and lens; e) lacrymal ducts; f) disturbances of the vision; and g) various others.
(11) 950 nucleotides (nt), 920 nt and 860 nt, could be detected in the rat ventral prostate and the lacrymal gland.
(12) In aged-male rats examined at 5 to 36 months of age were frequently observed nephropathy, periarteritis, skeletal muscle degeneration, pigmentation of the follicular epithelium in the thyroid, fibrosis of the pancreatic islets, hyperplasia of the parathyroid epithelium, and changes of the acini in the extraorbital lacrymal gland.
(13) Experiments were carried out to quantify the proportion of IgA in rat tears that arrives from the circulating IgA pool in the blood, as opposed to that supplied by local synthesis in the lacrymal gland.
(14) In conclusion, a simple 'blood free' method is advised as promising; consisting of the putting through of a 'Silastic tube' through both lacrymal points with the help of a curved canula probe (Fulmek).
(15) Virus isolation was attempted from 26 oral and lacrymal, 23 genital, nine urine and fecal, and four milk and male ejaculate samples from eight infected rabbits.
(16) Light microscope autoradiography demonstrated that [125I]T3 injected intravenously is rapidly transported in the cells of fat tissue of the peribulbar orbital area and tissues with glandular or muscular function: the hormone showed a high affinity for the intra- and extraorbital lacrymal gland cells, the cells of the Harder's gland, those of the sebaceous and meibomian glands of the eye-lids, as well as for local muscular structures.
(17) Rat alpha 2 mu globulins are coded for by a family of about 25 structurally related genes, some of which are expressed in the male adult liver while the other subset seems to be active in several excretory organs, including salivary and lacrymal glands.
(18) Six months after the onset of the arthritis, she developed a Raynaud's syndrome and a lacrymal and salivary dry syndrome with unilateral axillary lymphadenopathy.
(19) They come to the conclusion that this non-invasive semeiological technique is much helpful in quantitative or qualitative study of the lacrymal ducts.
(20) Hybridization experiments with specific oligonucleotides which distinguish between the mRNAs encoding both 22-kDa protein variants indicate that one protein form is less androgen dependent in the ventral prostate and not expressed in the lacrymal gland.