lacrimation
noun
the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
lachrymation
-
a variation of
lacrimation.
Example Sentences
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Ellen gives Brian to a school teacher for adoption, and there the lachrymation bursts forth.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Bertrand Russell
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 Henry Ebenezer Handerson
Usually there are lachrymation, congestion of conjunctiva, or other vaso-motor and secretory complications, such as are described in Chapter III.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
There was no lachrymation nor conjunctival congestion, and nothing to remark in any way about either eye.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
