emulgent

See also: émulgent

English

Etymology

Latin emulgens, present participle of emulgere (to milk out); so called because the kidney was regarded by the ancients as straining out the serum, as if by milking, and so producing the urine.

Adjective

emulgent

  1. Of a straining or purifying process.
  2. (medicine) Of the renal arteries and veins.
    • 1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Existence of a Deity”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: [], London: Printed for George Strahan [], OCLC 12981367, § XXXV, page 213:
      By the motion of the Heart, through the Emulgent Branches, the Blood is brought to the Kidneys, and is there freed of its Serum by their little Glands, []
    • 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 49:
      ...the kidneys, plac'd at the extremities of two large blood-vessels, the emulgent vein and artery, derived from the great vein and artery, very soon after their parting at the heart, the fountain of circulation.

Noun

emulgent (plural emulgents)

  1. (medicine) A substance promoting bile or urine production
  2. A renal artery or vein.

Latin

Verb

ēmulgent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of ēmulgeō
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