Crossword-Solution: LACHRYMAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lachrymal | a. | Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions. |
| Lachrymal | a. | Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland. |
| Lachrymal | a. | Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “LACHRYMAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Relating to tears | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LACHRYMAL (5)
Anna spoke with a smile of her “scene” with Madame de Chantelle, who belonged, poor dear, to a generation when “scenes” (in the ladylike and lachrymal sense of the term) were the tribute which sensibility was expected to pay to the unusual.
Poor dear, how I pity you! Forced now to go back to your old Adeline, to that lachrymal urn--for, as he no doubt told you, the monster means to watch me night and day; he spoke of a detective! Do not come here, he is capable of anything I know, since he could make use of me for the basest purposes of speculation.
North had a man's horror of a ready feminine lachrymal gland; but it was not like Bessy to cry, and it meant something; and then she did it in a large, goddess-like way, without sniffling, or chocking, or getting her nose red, but rather with a gentle deliquescence, a harmonious melting, so that he was fain to comfort her with nearer contact, gentleness in his own sad eyes, and a pressure of her large hand.
But all the while the face of Byles Gridley, firm as a rock in the midst of this lachrymal inundation, was kept steadily on the preacher, who had often felt the look that came through the two round glasses searching into the very marrow of his bones.
Can you tell me what this relation is? Does the orbicularis press against, and so directly stimulate, the lachrymal gland? As a slight blow on the eye causes, by reflex action, a copious effusion of tears, can the slight spasmodic contraction of the orbicularis act like a blow? This seems hardly possible.
Quotes with LACHRYMAL (1)
What is it, she asks me, why do people cry? Why do we cry when we're happy and when we're sad or hurt? I tell her what I know or think I know: that the body does not distinguish between emotional and physical pain; the muscles around the lachrymal glands receive a message from the brain, then tighten and squeeze out tears. Tears contain high levels of the hormone ACTH and prolactin, endorphins (which we know are mood-altering and pain-killing), as well as thirty times more ma…