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An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.
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Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.
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Serving to moisten the eye; -- sometimes applied to the lachrymal ducts.
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Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
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Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.
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An elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.
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Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.
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Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme.
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Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts.
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The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.
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The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc.
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Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem.
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The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymphatics, serous cavities, etc. It often includes the epidermis (i. e., keratin-producing epithelial cells), and it is sometimes restricted to the alimentary canal, the glands and their appendages, -- the term endothelium being applied to the lining membrane of the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities.
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Constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.
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A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds. The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck, and Echidna.
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Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.
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Between lobes; as, the interlobar notch of the liver; the interlobar ducts of a gland.
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One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.
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Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.
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Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
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