duct

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
  2. noun a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
  3. noun an enclosed conduit for a fluid

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology.

In classic literature

Synonyms

epithelial duct, canal, channel

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