transferred. A vent for humours or ‘fumosities’ of the body. Obsolete.

= emunctory, n.

= emunctory, n.

Medicine. An artificially created or naturally occurring opening in the skin through which pus or other body fluids can drain; = issue, n. 4a. Now…

‘A cleansing organ or canal; a term applied to the excretory ducts and organs of the body’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon) Also figurative.

Physiology. A canal by which any fluid passes out. Obsolete.

An excretory vessel or duct.

that which excretes or discharges.