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  2. Lacrimal apparatus - Wikipedia

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    The blood supply to the lacrimal gland is provided by the ophthalmic artery with its branch - the lacrimal artery, while the venous blood is drained from this region via the superior ophthalmic vein. The lacrimal system is made up of a secretory system, which produces tears, and an excretory system, which drains the tears.

  3. Lacrimal gland - Wikipedia

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    The lacrimal gland is a compound tubuloacinar gland, it is made up of many lobules separated by connective tissue, each lobule contains many acini.The acini composed of large serous cells which, produce a watery serous secretion, serous cells are filled with lightly stained secretory granules and surrounded by well-developed myoepithelial cells and a sparse, vascular stroma.

  4. Lacrimal artery - Wikipedia

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    The lacrimal artery supplies the lacrimal gland, the eyelids and conjunctiva, and the superior rectus muscle and lateral rectus muscle. [6]Recurrent meningeal branch. A recurrent meningeal branch may sometimes arise from the lacrimal artery to pass backwards, exiting the orbit through the lateral part of the superior orbital fissure to reach the dura mater.

  5. Accessory visual structures - Wikipedia

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    The lacrimal apparatus is the physiological system containing the orbital structures for tear production and drainage. [3] It consists of: The lacrimal gland, which secretes the tears, and its excretory ducts, which convey the fluid to the surface of the human eye; it is a serous gland located in lacrimal fossa. It is a j-shaped gland;

  6. Lateral palpebral arteries - Wikipedia

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    The lateral palpebral arteries are the two large branches of those terminal branches of the lacrimal gland that supply the eyelid, with one lateral palpebral artery supplying one eyelid or the other. They pass medial-ward within the eyelid.

  7. Dorsal nasal artery - Wikipedia

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    It passes anteriorly [citation needed] to exit the orbit between the trochlea (superiorly [citation needed]), the medial palpebral ligament (inferiorly [citation needed]). [1] It gives a branch to the lacrimal sac before bifurcating into two branches: one branch anastomoses with the terminal (angular) part of the facial artery [1] and is important for the blood supply of the face; [citation ...

  8. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe.

  9. Tears - Wikipedia

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    Lacrimal fluid gathers in the lacrimal lake which is found in the medial part of the eye. The lacrimal papilla is an elevation in the inner side of the eyelid, at the edge of the lacrimal lake. [10] The lacrimal canaliculi open into the papilla. [10] The opening of each canaliculus is the lacrimal punctum.