emulgent

Meanings

Adjective

• Of a straining or purifying process.
• Of the renal arteries and veins.

Noun

• A substance promoting bile or urine production
• A renal artery or vein.

Origin

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