lacrimal
Americanadjective
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Anatomy. Also of, relating to, or situated near the organs that secrete tears.
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of lacrimal
First recorded in 1535–45; variant of lachrymal
Example Sentences
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Every portrait depicts a pale woman with a sharp nose, bow lips, slightly receding chin, and dark eyes with a pink lacrimal caruncle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Even our lacrimal surrogates in Hollywood have been turning their backs on us and toward age-defying procedures that culminate in faces that can no longer approximate our sorrow.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
Next are two sets of lacrimal glands that supply the watery tears.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2021
These consist of 14 bones, with the paired maxillary, palatine, zygomatic, nasal, lacrimal, and inferior conchae bones and the unpaired vomer and mandible bones.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The frontal extends 3.8 mm. in the midline, and anteriorly and laterally borders the nasal and lacrimal, respectively.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton
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