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Ellen gives Brian to a school teacher for adoption, and there the lachrymation bursts forth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ophthalmia, which begins in the left eye, with lachrymation and night agglutination of the eyelids.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

The closure of the eye and the lachrymation are quite involuntary, and so is the disturbance of the heart.

From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand

Sudden pain in upper teeth with lachrymation, < pressing jaws together.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

This pellicle is also said to have a connection with the heart, which arrangement furnishes a decidedly curious explanation of the mechanism of sympathetic and maudlin lachrymation.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer