duckweed (dukwed)

Same as duck - meat. duck-weight (duk'wat), n. A stone figure of a duck, used as a weight in ancient As syria and Babylonia. It was usually inscribed with a legend, giving the name of the king and the value of the weight in minæ, as "30 manahs, Palace of Irba Merodach, King of Babylon." Duclair duck. See duck2. duct (dukt), n. [Also, as L., duct us; = OF. duit, doit, doet = Pg. ducto = It. dutto, tus, a leading, a conduit-pipe (cf. aqueduct, lies on the outer side of the kidney, ends blindly in front, and opens behind into the cloaca. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 163. Hepatic duct, the duct of the liver, conveying bile to the intestine, either directly or, as in man, by uniting with the cystic duct to form the duct us communis choledochus. See It is formed in man of two main branches which i ue from the liver at the transverse fi ure, one from the right, the other from the left lobe, and unite in one trunk before joining the cystic duct. All the ducts from the liver and gall-bladder are sometimes known as biliary ducts, collectively. - Lactiferous duct. Same as galactophorous duct. - Lymphatic duct. lymphatic, n.-Nasal duct, the membranous tube leading from the lacrymal sac to open into the inferior meatus of the nose. - Obliterated duct. See obliterate. - Pancreatic duct, the duct of the pancreas, discharging the pancreatic secretion into the intestine. In man the principal pancreatic duct is also called duct or canal of Wirsung. - Parotid duct. Same as duct us Sten on is (which see, under duct us).Secondary arch i nephric duct. See the extract. In both sexes the products escape by an apparatus which is homologous with the Muller i an duct, consisting of a canal of varying length, and provided with an infundibular orifice, which is attached to the ureter ( secondary arch i nephric duct ); this takes up the generative products. Gegenbaur, Comp. Anat. [(trans.), p. 610. Steno's duct. See duct us Sten on is, under duct us. Thoracic duct, the duct us thoracic us, the common trunk of all the lymphatics, excepting those which form the right IMG:content-0066.png:[blocks in formation] tilimètre,