What's the difference between lachrymatory and lacrimatory?

Lachrymatory


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus the lachrymatory action follows a general scheme for the activity of sensory transduction.
  • (2) Similar compounds without lachrymatory activity were reduced either very slowly or not at all.
  • (3) The lachrymatory substance in onions is propenyl sulfenic acid.

Lacrimatory


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