LACRIMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lacrimation mean? 

• LACRIMATION (noun)
  The noun LACRIMATION has 1 sense:

1. shedding tears

  Familiarity information: LACRIMATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LACRIMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shedding tears

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

lachrymation; lacrimation; tearing; watering

Hypernyms ("lacrimation" is a kind of...):

activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

 Context examples 

Symptoms include radiating pain, photophobia, lacrimation, and interference with vision.

(Iridocyclitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

These interactions play a role in signal transduction, which influences bodily functions including salivation, lacrimation, urination, digestion and defecation.

(Muscarinic Receptor Binding, NCI Thesaurus)

Ocular pain which may be very intense, accompanied by corneal epithelium damage, conjunctival injection, lacrimation, blepharospasm, photophobia and hazy vision following corneal edema caused by overwear of contact lenses, principally the PMMA type.

(Contact Lens Overwear Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Limitations include rapid drug elimination due to lacrimation and nasolacrimal drainage, drug binding to, and metabolism by, tear proteins, and target non-specificity as a result of systemic absorption through the nasal mucosa and conjunctival vasculature.

(Conjunctival Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)