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dotterel (iou) and jugular lymphatic trunk (medicine)


dotterel (iou)



dotterel noun & adjective. . LME.
[from DOTE verb1 + -REL.]
A. noun.
A small, exceptionally tame plover, Eudromias morinellus, found on open ground in northern Europe and northern Asia and migrating to the Mediterranean. Also (usu. with specifying word), any of several Other plovers of Australia, New Zealand, and S. America of the genera Eudromias, Charadrius, and Peltohyas. LME.
A silly or deranged person; a dotard. Now dial. LME.
A doddered tree; a pollard. Now dial. E17.
b. attrib. or as adjective.
dotterel tree = sense A.3 above. Now dial. M16.
Foolish, doting. Now rare or obsolete. L16.

jugular lymphatic trunk (medicine)


jugular lymphatic trunk
Lymphatic vessel on each side, conveying the lymph from the head and neck; that on the right side empties into the right lymphatic duct, that on the left into the thoracic duct.

Synonym: truncus jugularis, jugular duct.