Obs. Also 7 lymphiduct, 7–8 lympheduct, 9 lymphoduct. [ad. mod.L. lymphæductus, f. lymphæ gen. of lympha LYMPH + ductus leading; formed after aquæductus AQUEDUCT.] = LYMPHATIC B.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., III. 191. We had yet never known … the Blood’s Circulation, the Lymphiducts, and other admirable Curiosities in this fabrick of our Selves.
1691. Ray, Creation, II. (1692), 30. Certain Water-pipes or Lymphæ-ducts inserted in the Bulb of the Eye.
1694. W. Wotton, Anc. & Mod. Learn. (1697), 219. The Lympheducts … were not fully traced till Steno and Briggs described them.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Skin, Nervous Fibres … full of Glandules and Lympheducts.
1768. Cheselden, Anat., 209. Lymphæducts are small pellucid cylindrical tubes, which arise invisible from the extremities of the arteries.
b. In plants: A sap-vessel.
1672–3. Grew, Anat. Plants, II. iii. (1682), 68. Whether all Roots have Lymphæducts, is doubtful.
1675. Phil. Trans., X. 487. In some of which he finds Sap vessels to be only lymphæducts.
