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n. (plural of duct English)

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Besides, cold upon the surface shuts up the pores of the skin, which are among the most active and important excretory ducts of the system.

Excretory ducts uniting to form a tube which tortuously perforates the cuticle at 3, and opens obliquely on its surface at 4.

The lachrymal glands are small lobular organs, situated at the outer and upper orbit of the eye, and have from six to eight ducts, which open upon the conjunctiva, between the eyelid and its inner fold.

These glands consist of numerous follicles, grouped around an excretory duct, which unites with similar ducts coming from other lobules.

The construction of vertical ducts, the extra amount of fuel, and the attendant expenditures are the objections which, in the opinion of many persons, outweigh the health and happiness of the future generation.

The thin covering upon the lips, nipple, mucous and serous membranes and lining the ducts, blood-vessels and other canals.

That was how the air circulated, he knew: drawn from the lower level here, up into the ducts above, and then out through a vent pipe.

Most of her thoughts involved the ventilation ducts themselves, which she and her women had been exploring a bit while they waited for the action to reach them.

All except one, who went into the ventilation ducts after the princess escaped.

Dart was severing connective tissue and ducts with quick, accurate movements of his knife.

Just the thing to go with that glytex suit with the see-through lubricant ducts and tungsten bearings.

Mostly the walls were dun brown, stained with smoke or water, and crumbling where wiring lash-ups and air and waste ducts had been hammered into place.

Corpulent ducts belched and vomited their gaseous freight into enormous chuckling compressors.

All we could see were mechanoids of every shape and size crawling around this huge steel framework, doing all kinds of electrical and mechanical work on it, putting in pipes and ducts and ganglions.

It was a collection of squat concrete blocks crenellated by aluminium ducts and fans.