a. and sb. Phys. [ad. L. ēmulgent-em, pr. pple. of ēmulgē-re to milk out: see EMULGE.]

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  A.  adj. That ‘milks out’; esp. ‘applied to the vessels of the kidneys, which are supposed to strain or milk the serum through the kidneys’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).

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1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, V. 82. The Emulgent veynes.

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., I. i. II. ii. The branches of the Caua are … inward seminall or emulgent.

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1670.  Phil. Trans., V. 2081. Passages, by which the Chyle may come into the Emulgent … Vessels.

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1675.  Evelyn, Terra (1776), 33. The Fibres … are as it were the Emulgent veins.

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1783.  W. Keir, in Med. Commun., I. 130. The right emulgent vein was … large.

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1835–6.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 223/2. The case of the emulgent arteries.

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  B.  sb. = Emulgent vessels.

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1612.  S. H., Enchir. Med., II. 128. An immoderate heate drawing ouermuch bloud by the emulgents.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. v. 188. The Azygos … in its descent doth furnish the left Emulgent with one veyne.

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1788.  Baillie, in Phil. Trans., LXXVIII. 357. The right spermatic vein was found to open into the right emulgent.

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