tears

     

Tears are the liqui product of a process of lacrimation to clean and lubricate the eyes. The word lacrimation may also be used in a medical or literary sense to refer to crying. Strong emotions, such as sorrow or elation, may lead to crying. The process of yawning may also result in tearing. Although most land mammals have a lacrimation system to keep their eyes moist, humans are the only animal generally accepted to cry emotional tears.

Trivia about tears

  • Sulfuric compounds in onions induce these in humans who are slicing them
  • Johnson's Baby Shampoo promises "no more" these
  • The handmade pottery studio at 654 Tenth Avenue isn't called Blood, Sweat & these but Mud, Sweat & these
  • The condition keratoconjuctivitis sicca is associated with reduction in the flow of these
  • Buddha's 1st Noble Truth is all life is suffering--there are more of these in the world than there is water in the ocean
  • The lacrimal bones contain sacs that collect excess these from the surface of the eyes
  • An annual commemoration held in Tahlequah, Okla. honors the Cherokee journey known as the "Trail of" these
  • "If I should meet thee after long years, how should I greet thee? -- with silence and" these
  • In an African fable, Cheetah's facial lines are stains from these, caused when a mother found her cubs missing
  • "Into these last nine beers" Hank Williams "shed a million" of these
  • "O beautiful for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years/ Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human" these
  • About 4,000 Cherokee Indians died on the "Trail of" these in the late 1830s
  • Lysozyme found in these secretions destroys bacteria that attack the cornea
  • William Blake:"When the stars threw down their spears,/ And watered heaven with their _____"
  • Shelley called time an "Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years... brackish with the salt of human" these
  • Tennyson wrote of these, "idle" these, "from the depth of some divine despair"
  • The 1980 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film went to Vladimir Menshov's "Moscow Does Not Believe In" these

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