Duct

What do we mean by duct?

An often enclosed passage or channel for conveying a substance, especially a liquid or gas. noun

A tubular bodily canal or passage, especially one for carrying a glandular secretion. noun

A tube or pipe for enclosing electrical cables or wires. noun

To channel through a duct. transitive verb

To supply with ducts. transitive verb

To draw: said of muscles which abduct, adduct, or circumduct a part, such as the leg or the eye.

Leading; guidance; direction; bearing. noun

Any tube or canal by which a fluid is conducted or conveyed. noun

In bot.: noun

A long continuous vessel or canal, formed by a row of cells which have lost their intervening partitions. The walls are variously marked by pits and by spiral, annular, or reticulated thickenings, and the cavity may be filled with air or water, or they may be lactiferous. noun

In bryology, the narrow continuous cells which surround the utricles in the leaves of Sphagnum. noun

Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed. noun

One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination. noun

A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber. noun

Guidance; direction. noun

A pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another. noun

An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs. noun

Guidance; direction. noun

To channel something through a duct (or series of ducts) verb

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

A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.

An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs.

Guidance; direction.

Words that are spelled similarly to duct:
duct.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word duct:
ectasia, ercp, ampulla, ductwork, cholangitis, gallbladder, parotid, biliary, diverticulum, duodenum, bile, papilla, duodenal, pancreatitis, basilar, tubule, cloaca, papillary, pancreas, cyst, lacrimal, sphincter, vesicle, gland, cystic, excision, hepatic, pancreatic, tape, mammary, nipple, orifice, jaundice, lymph, lymphatic, epithelium, vas, obstruction, blockage, carcinoma, saliva, glands, bladder, suction, leakage, epithelial, vagina, uterus, taped, sinus, nozzle, thoracic, accessory, intestine, airflow, penis, thyroid, renal, distal, seminal, gall, sac, artery, ventral, nasal, sweat, secretion, sperm, cavity, inflammation, liver, kidney, sealing, exhaust, inlet, loads, widening, vent, prostate, urine, membrane, turbine, abdominal, remnant, vein, anterior, lining, intake, reproductive, drain, joints, fluid, thrust, flute, opens, friction, dust, bud, propeller, flow.

Words that rhyme with duct:
conduct, construct, instruct, obstruct, deduct, abduct, aqueduct, induct, struct, deconstruct, reconstruct, destruct, plucked, fucked, tucked, sticked, sucked, bucked, disorderly conduct, ducked, bricked, flicked, cricked, chucked, clucked, code of conduct, snicked, trucked, rucked, shucked, lucked, mucked, cerebral aqueduct, lucht.

Adjectives that are often used to describe duct:
common, cystic, hepatic, main, pancreatic, thoracic, nasolacrimal, ejaculatory, wolffian, right, parotid, mesonephric, nasal, bile, thyroglossal, single, distal, lymphatic, left, salivary, endolymphatic, lacrimal, mullerian, submandibular, accessory, short, tear, cortical, rectangular, miillerian, lachrymal, omphalomesenteric, pronephric, submaxillary, segmental, narrow, nasofrontal, circular, semicircular, straight, extrahepatic, lactiferous, genital, obstructed, terminal, seminal, excretory, pneumatic, intrahepatic, arterial, archinephric, paramesonephric, sebaceous, cochlear, proximal, intestinal, intercalated, spermatic, deferent, frontonasal, posterior, interlobular, hermaphroditic, round, horizontal, nephric, vertical, spermathecal, persistent, gall, striated, longitudinal, dilated, lateral, intralobular, nasopalatine, sublingual, hermaphrodite, membranous, flexible, slender, median.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective duct:
system, tape, obstruction, systems, cells, carcinoma, epithelium, stones, conduit, work, lymph, proliferation, ligation, anastomosis, lining, type, disease, sign, stone, glands, lesions, flow, lymphocytes, drainage, cancer, discharge, formation, openings, cholangitis, psc, reconstruction, damage, junction, wall, cysts, unit, syndrome, units, stenosis, loss, exploration, taping, flutes, stricture, opening, injury, carcinomas, progenitors, walls, sections, elements, origin, material, box, cyst, ectasia, injuries, design, layer, pressure, injection, section, orifice, elbows, cancers, obliteration, infection, organizing, occlusion, close, diameter, tile, subway, run, fistula, hamartomas, arrangement, conduits, blockage, gland, occlud, outlets, ipmn, filling, colic, temperature, raceways, runs, devices, ion, dilatation, papilloma, blockages, installation, propagation.

Consonant match to duct:
decked, docked, ducked, diked, duked.

Words that sound like duct:
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