lacrimal apparatus
lacrimal organ

Nevertheless, he expected to learn something from the dissection of his father's lacrimal apparatus.

Included are the eyebrow, eyelids, and lacrimal apparatus.

Lacking a lacrimal apparatus, the eye relies on the harderian gland to keep it moist.

The lacrimal apparatus is the physiologic system containing the orbital structures for tear production and drainage.

As if the heat of Ahriman's lips had withered Martie's lacrimal apparatus, her eyes grew dry once more.

The lacrimal apparatus produces tears, providing nutrition and moisture to the eye, as well as helping to remove any debris that may have entered.

Haemolacria is a symptom of a number of diseases, and may also be indicative of a tumor in the lacrimal apparatus.

Because the lacrimal apparatus was tiny, composed of very soft tissue, and damaged in the doctor's limited autopsy, he had not been able to save any of it.

The act of crying has been defined as "a complex secretomotor phenomenon characterized by the shedding of tears from the lacrimal apparatus, without any irritation of the ocular structures".

He performed extensive studies of diseases involving the lacrimal apparatus, and in 1860 described the association of facial naevus flammeus with buphthalmos in a disease now known as encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis.

The most common findings involve malformations in the network of structures of the eye that secrete tears and drain them from the eyes (lacrimal apparatus) and abnormalities of the forearms and fingers.

Schirmer provided a comprehensive description involving the pathology of sympathetic ophthalmia, a detailed study of rosacea keratitis, and extensive research concerning the physiology and anatomy of the eye's lacrimal apparatus.

When he could finally pry himself away from the book, he brought Dad's body upstairs, placed it on the bed, wiped the smears of dark chocolate off its mouth, dissected the great director's fine lacrimal apparatus, and collected the famous eyes.

When the great director lay dead in the library, felled by the poisoned petits fours, but before surgery had been performed on his lacrimal apparatus, the doctor had gone in search of Viveca and had found her in his father's bed.