EMUNCTORY
\ɛmˈʌŋktəɹˌi], \ɛmˈʌŋktəɹˌi], \ɛ_m_ˈʌ_ŋ_k_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
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By William R. Warner
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Any organ whose office it is to give issue to matters which ought to be excreted. The ancients believed that some organs were more particularly destined to serve as emunctories of others; the nasal fossae, for example, they believed to be the emunctories of the brain.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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hydromorphic
- [Greek] Structurally adapted to an aquatic environment, as organs of water plants.