11.   The blast injured his tear ducts, so that there is nowhere for the tears to go except down his face.

12.   The tear ducts were burned away, too.

13.   Aristide, whose right eye is enlarged because of a tear duct that does not properly regulate fluid, received a general anesthetic for the operation, she said.

14.   Dr. Bruce Wolf, an ophthalmologist, diagnosed some severed tear ducts, saying she will need some tiny Pyrex tubes as replacements.

15.   He had damage to the tear duct and retina.

16.   It was not the only one which could do a number on your tear ducts.

17.   Mandela suffered permanent damage to his tear ducts from the years of crushing limestone in the quarry.

18.   This had left him without lower eyelashes and with malfunctioning tear ducts that gave him sore eyes when he read.

19.   South African President Nelson Mandela postponed indefinitely a minor operation to open a tear duct Wednesday after a lengthy cabinet meeting, his spokesman Parks Mankahlana said.

20.   South African President Nelson Mandela was in fine health Thursday after an operation to open the tear duct in his right eye, his spokesman said.