ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Emulgent

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Emulgent is an adjective meaning Of a straining or purifying process.

Meaning

Of a straining or purifying process.

More Meanings

  1. (medicine) Of the renal arteries and veins.
  2. (medicine) A substance promoting bile or urine production
  3. A renal artery or vein.

Example Sentences

By the motion of the Heart, through the Emulgent Branches, the Blood is brought to the Kidneys, and is there freed of its Serum by their little Glands, […]
...the kidneys, plac'd at the extremities of two large blood-vessels, the emulgent vein and artery, derived from the great vein and artery, very soon after their parting at the heart, the fountain of circulation.

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include ebullient, effulgent, affulgent, exulting, profulgent, refulgent.

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