lacrimal

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Is there any history of lacrimal, nasal, or sinus surgery?

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  • Is there any history of lacrimal, nasal, or sinus surgery? —  LearnHub Activities
  • But with whichever eyes you see it, the poem Michael Jackson recites towards the end, Planet Earth, is bound to get many a lacrimal gland moving in unison. —  The Times of India
  • Schrank was diagnosed with lacrimal cancer on December 20, 2006, while serving as an active duty marine. —  Newswise: Latest News
  • Sjogren's syndrome is an autoimmune exocrinopathy that chiefly destroys the salivary and lacrimal glands by lympho-plasmacytic infiltration. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • For the diseases of the cartilage itself, see "Encephaloid cancer LACRIMAL APPARATUS This consists, first, of a gland for the secretion of the tears, and, second, of a series of canals for the conveyance of the superfluous tears into the cavity of the nose The gland is situated above the outer part of the eyeball, and the tears which have flowed over the eye and reached the inner angle are there directed by a small, conical papilla (lacrimal caruncle) into two minute orifices, and thence by two ducts (lacrimal) to a small pouch (lacrimal sac) from which a canal leads through the bones of the face into the nose. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
 

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