thoracic duct
Make sure ventilation ducts are cleaned to remove dust and debris.
Workers have installed big silver cooling ducts in the ceiling.
Passing dark urine is a common occurrence when a gallstone blocks the duct that drains bile from the gallbladder.
Calcium-channel blockers obstruct the tiny ducts in cells through which calcium ions must pass to constrict blood vessels.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Parts of buildings: vents & ventilation
air con
air conditioner
air conditioning
air-conditioned
air-cooler
chiller
chimney
chimney pot
chimney stack
circulator
cooler
dehumidify
ducting
extractor
flue
smokestack
vent
ventilated
ventilation
ventilator

duct | American Dictionary

duct
noun[ C ]
us/dʌkt/
a tube or pipe in a building that carries liquid or air or protects wires:
Air conditioning requires ventilating ducts.
A duct is also a narrow tube in the body that carries a liquid:
tear ducts

Examples of duct

duct
The duct was then replaced and the oscillating pressure measured in similar conditions.
He had double outlet right ventricle, subaortic ventricular septal defect, pulmonary atresia, small patent arterial duct and confluent but small pulmonary arteries.
Ventricular septal defects, patentcy of the arterial duct, anomalous pulmonary venous connection and stenosis of the pulmonary arteries were also reported.
The proximal portions of the sixth arches contribute to the pulmonary arteries and the distal portions of the left sixth arch becomes the arterial duct.
The pulmonary arteries filled from the aorta via a patent atrial duct.
Both patients showed a nontortuous arterial duct inserting normally with the descending aorta at an obtuse inferior angle.
A collateral artery originating from the descending aorta supplied the left lung, while the right pulmonary artery originated from the arterial duct.
Rotation of the transducer allowed simultaneous imaging of the ascending and descending aorta and distal part of the arterial duct.
Somewhere between 80 to 90% of the blood ejected by the right ventricle goes through the duct into the descending thoracic aorta with minimal resistance.
There was a saccular aneurysm of 5 mm diameter in the proximal thoracic descending aorta, two millimeters distal to the patent arterial duct.
These proteins form a fibrous network which is in continuity from the hilum to the alveolar ducts.
The patient initially had a patent arterial duct that originated from the under surface of the rightsided aortic arch.
The arterial duct and the oval foramen were patent.
Echocardiography showed normal chamber and vessel relationships, a small patent arterial duct, and an atrial septal defect with bidirectional shunting across the oval fossa.
There was a right-to-left shunt through an atrial septal defect within the oval fossa and a left-to-right shunt through a patent arterial duct.
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Collocations withduct

duct

These are words often used in combination with duct.

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air duct
The cold airduct is shown as 3ft 6ins (1050mm) high with a crosssectional area approximately 1.24m2.
milk ducts
If pumping, it is helpful to have an electric high-grade pump so that all of the milk ducts are stimulated.
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