emunctory

• And lastly, the skin is a great emunctory, and carries off waste matters from the body. —  The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken
• Monthly_, "is the stimulation of the emunctory action of the skin. —  Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
• The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time of the Barmecides. —  Ulysses
• Chronic, irreversible disease of the lungs; abnormal enlargement of air spaces in the lungs accompanied by destruction of the tissue lining the walls of the air spaces. emunctory —  Surgical Anatomy
• The urinary apparatus (consisting of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra) is known to be the principal emunctory for eliminating and voiding the detritus formed by the continual decay of the parts comprising the animal economy. —  Surgical Anatomy

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