emulgent, a. and n. Phys.
(ɪˈmʌldʒənt)
[ad. L. ēmulgent-em, pr. pple. of ēmulgē-re to milk out: see emulge.]
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.).
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man v. 82 The Emulgent veynes. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. ii, The branches of the Caua are..inward seminall or emulgent. 1670 Phil. Trans. V. 2081 Passages, by which the Chyle may come into the Emulgent..Vessels. 1675 Evelyn Terra (1776) 23 The Fibres..are as it were the Emulgent veins. 1783 W. Keir in Med. Commun. I. 130 The right emulgent vein was..large. 1835–6 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 223/2 The case of the emulgent arteries. |
B. n. = emulgent vessels.
| 1612 S. H. Ench. Med. II. 128 An immoderate heate drawing ouermuch bloud by the emulgents. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. v. 188 The Azygos..in its descent doth furnish the left Emulgent with one veyne. 1788 Baillie in Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 357 The right spermatic vein was found to open into the right emulgent. |