lachrymal

• In the anterior corner of the orbit there is a bone, the lachrymal (lc. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
• The third type consists of lachrymal, or tear-producing, gas, which is used in the same way as the asphyxiating, but its effects are not fatal, merely putting a man out of action for a few hours. —  Italy at War and the Allies in the West
• Grief excites the lachrymal, and rage the salivary glands. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
• My lachrymal glands produce more reflex onion tears and I brush and Levi's back in the mudroom, scrubbing. —  Holy Experience
• Primary carcinoma begins in the lachrymal gland. —  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

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