tear duct English

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tear duct

— noun (= lacrimal duct) any of several small ducts that carry tears from the lacrimal glands

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lacrimal duct

lachrymal duct

nasolacrimal duct

Naso-lacrymal duct

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Simultaneously, continuing ethnic tensions between Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, and Han Chinese threatened to tear the region apart along local and tribal lines.

It gave the US a stick with which to tear down the EU's common agricultural policy.

We could, for example, tear down San Francisco's row houses and replace them with buildings more like those of New York's Upper West Side.

On the surface, Europe's current crisis, which some people predict will tear apart the European Union, is financial.

He was a grown man to everyone but Nanny, always remaining for her a small, pink, frightened, tear-stained child.

Russia is again on a tear.

Many fishing techniques now in use--bottom trawls foremost among them--literally tear up the habitat upon which fish depend.

An assertive and relatively stable China, it seems, must expand, lest pent-up internal pressures tear it apart.

Let us, together with the US, tear down the trade and economic barriers that are stifling these economies.

When police attacked with tear gas, pieds noirs opened fire.

They tear societies apart, destroy the livelihoods of millions, and cause even greater conflicts, as we have seen in Iraq.

Do any of us ever tear up our insurance policies?

Police fired tear gas into the compound, standing by as those outside the cathedral launched petrol bombs, hurled rocks, and shot at those inside.

Surely we can caution its people that they are sliding towards Talibanization, and that this threatens to tear their country apart?

And it is not only major stressful life events that exact a toll on our bodies; the many conflicts and demands of daily life elevate and sometimes disrupt the workings of our response systems for stress, causing wear and tear on the body and brain.

Clinton and Blair - who came to power after that other odd Anglo-American couple, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, had started to tear at the fabric of social democracy - made compromises of which Attlee would not have dreamed.

The battle between austerity's defenders and opponents thus threatens to tear apart not just the eurozone, but the EU as a whole.

On the contrary, such a choice would tear Europe apart both politically and economically.

Russia is again on a tear. This time, the Kremlin has stuck its finger in the West's eye over the long and painful effort to bring Kosovo to formal independence.

To allow this pillar to erode - or, worse, to tear it down - is a folly of the highest order.