duct

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

   The tear duct was obstructed.

Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology.

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