Any of the glands in the eyes that secrete tears.
1Does the orbicularis press against, and so directly stimulate, the lachrymal gland?
2Rudimentary lachrymal glands from a human embryo of four months.
3I didn't know he had lachrymal glands at all until a little while ago.
4Trace them from the lachrymal glands to the nostrils.
5But we find lachrymal glands in all the three classes of Amniotes-reptiles ,birds ,andmammals.
6It turned out the muscles above the eyes were responsible, squeezing the lachrymal glands, producing the runoff.
7The lachrymal glands had none of that ready sensitiveness which gives many superficial women the credit of deep feeling.
8Further analysis of these animals has now revealed that they also develop an exocrinopathy involving the salivary and lachrymal glands.
9The lachrymal glands are ramified growths from the conjunctiva (Figure 2.286).
10If by any chance the lachrymal glands were to be dried up, woman's life would lose a goodly share of its charm.
11Thus the sweat glands of the skin secrete the perspiration as their secretion, the lachrymal glands of the eyes the tears as theirs.
12The lachrymal glands were placed in us for sorrow to play upon; we are commanded to "weep with those who weep."
13Underneath the upper eye-lid are the lachrymal glands, the product of which, the lachrymal fluid, keeps the outer surface of the eye smooth and clean.
Translations for lachrymal gland