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- lachrymal (adj.)
- also lachrimal, early 15c., from Medieval Latin lacrimalis, from Latin lacrima (see lachrymose).
- aegilops
- " Medicine . An abscess or ulcer of the inner canthus of the eye, especially when involving a lacrimal duct or the lacrimal sac", Late 16th cent.; earliest use found in John Banister (1532/3–?1610), surgeon. From classical Latin aegilops ulcer in the eye, lacrimal fistula, species of oak tree, species of grass from Hellenistic Greek αἰγίλωψ ulcer in the eye, lacrimal fistula, species of oak tree, species of grass, of uncertain origin, perhaps two (or three) separate words.