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tear duct noun[ C ] uk /ˈtɪə ˌdʌkt/ us /ˈtɪr ˌdʌkt/ one of the short tubes at the edge of a person's eyes that carry tears into the nose: He believes his tear ducts were damaged by the procedure. People with blocked tear ducts cannot cry.泪管阻塞者流不出眼泪。 someone's tear ducts used to talk about the fact that something makes someone cry: The film is overly keen to activate your tear ducts. A few of the songs may tweak your tear ducts while you're tapping along. It is amazing how easily our tear ducts well up because of simple things. I had an operation to enlarge my tear ducts, but it was unsuccessful. The artist had a malfunctioning tear duct. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases The eye & surrounding area beadily beetling canthus chiasm chiasma compound eye eyeball eyelid glassy limbus macula macula lutea macular monobrow optic nerve staring suborbital superciliary supraoptic supraorbital
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