Definition of Ducts

1. Noun. (plural of duct) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ducts

1. duct [v] - See also: duct

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ducts

ductilities
ductility
ductin
ducting
ductings
duction
ductions
ductless
ductless gland
ductless glands
ductlike
ductopenia
ductopenic
ductor
ductors
ducts (current term)
ducts of Skene's glands
ductular
ductule
ductules
ductuli aberrantes
ductuli biliferi
ductuli excretorii glandulae lacrimalis
ductuli interlobulares
ductuli paroophori
ductuli prostatici
ductulus
ductulus aberrans inferior
ductulus aberrans superior

Literary usage of Ducts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"From this plexus ducts are derived which pass into the portal canals, ... 518), join with other ducts to form two main trunks, which leave the liver at the ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"The two ducts open by a common orifice upon the summit of a papilla, ... The coats of the biliary ducts are an external or fibrous and an internal or mucous ..."

3. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"The Bile-ducts. The larger bile-ducts, namely, the hepatic duct leading from the liver, the cystic duct leading from the gall-bladder, and the common ..."

4. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"Toward the central caliber the cement-substance produces a distinct investing layer, which in the larger ducts is studded with short rods (Virchow), ..."

5. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"It is not known how widespread this catarrh is in the bile-passages, and whether it really passes up the ducts. It would, of course, be possible to have a ..."

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