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| canaliculus |
a small bodily channel or tubular passage, such as a tear duct, or a tiny groove, as in a bone. |
| comedo |
a blockage of dirt and secretions in a skin duct; blackhead. |
| ductal |
in anatomy, relating to or originating from a duct, such as a duct in mammary tissue. |
| ductless |
combined form of duct. |
| efferent |
in physiology, a nerve, duct, or the like that leads away from an organ. [1/2 definitions] |
| exocrine |
having a duct allowing external secretion. [1/3 definitions] |
| flue |
a duct, pipe, or other passage through which hot or cold air, smoke, or steam may be evacuated. |
| lacteal |
of or pertaining to the anatomical vessels that convey a milky fluid from the intestine to the thoracic duct. [2/3 definitions] |
| lumen |
a hollow space, as in the bore of a hollow needle or in a bodily duct or tract. [1/2 definitions] |
| meatus |
a passage or duct within the body, or the external opening of such a passage, as of the ear or urethra. |
| media2 |
the middle layer of an arterial or lymphatic duct. |
| stenosis |
in medicine, constriction or narrowing of a vessel, duct, tubular passage, or the like. |
| stricture |
an abnormal constriction of a body duct or passage. [1/3 definitions] |
| ureter |
a narrow duct through which urine moves from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. |
| urethra |
a duct that carries urine outside the body from the bladder and that, in a male mammal, conducts the semen. |
| vas |
an anatomical or biological vessel or duct. |
| vas deferens |
the duct that carries sperm from the testicle to the ejaculatory duct of the penis. |
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