Usually means: Channel that drains tears away.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. tear duct: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. tear duct: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tear duct: Vocabulary.com
  4. tear-duct: Wordnik
  5. tear duct: Wiktionary
  6. tear duct: Dictionary.com
  7. Tear duct: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. tear duct: Rhymezone
  9. tear duct: FreeDictionary.org
  10. tear duct: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. tear duct: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear duct: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tear duct: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. tear duct: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (anatomy) A duct that transports tears from the lacrimal sac to the nasal cavity

Similar:
nasolacrimal duct, lacrimal duct, lacrimal canal, lacrimal canaliculus, tear sac, tear gland, lacrimal sac, lachrymal sac, lacrimal punctum, duct, more...

Opposite:
lacrimal gland, lacrimal apparatus, tear gland

Types:
lacrimal duct, nasolacrimal duct, more...

Phrases:
blocked tear duct, more...

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Similar:
nasolacrimal duct, lacrimal duct, lacrimal canal, lacrimal canaliculus, tear sac, tear gland, lacrimal sac, lachrymal sac, lacrimal punctum, duct, more...

Opposite:
lacrimal gland, lacrimal apparatus, tear gland

Types:
lacrimal duct, nasolacrimal duct, more...

Phrases:
blocked tear duct, more...



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