poraladj.
/ˈpɔːrəl/, /ˈpɔːrl̩/, U.S. /ˈpɔrəl/ Chiefly Biology.
Of or relating to pores; bearing pores.
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the world > life > the body > skin > pore in skin > [adjective]
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1858 J. Hall & J. D. Whitney Rep. Geol. Surv. State Iowa I. ii. viii. 485 Filiform and articulate appendages, like the pinnules of the arms of other crinoids, and corresponding in number and in their bilateral arrangement with those of the lateral pores, complete the series of poral pieces.
1879 G. Meredith Egoist I. xiv. 253 As it were..by form of perspiration, radiation, if you like; unconscious poral bountifulness.
1926 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 64 144 The poral outline is much like that of Pseudonavicella.
1961 D. M. Pillsbury et al. Man. Cutaneous Med. ii. 49 In acne the sebaceous gland may atrophy as a result of concomitant poral occlusion.
1990 Sexual Plant Reprod. 3 18 This explanation may..account for the occurrence of poral sporophytic proteins in the pollens of many dicotyledons.
2002 Jrnl. Reprod. Med. 47 695 Inflammation of the glands was often absent or minimal and seen only with associated poral occlusion.
Derivatives
ˈporally adv. by means of or through pores; with respect to a pore or pores.
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1973 Bot. Gaz. 134 125/1 These species whose anthers dehisce porally.
1996 Jrnl. Helminthol. Soc. Washington 63 188 It possesses an ovary that is tetralobed in cross-section, a uterus that is porally deviated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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