lymph
noun/lɪmf/ · [lɪmpf]
Etymology Borrowing from French lymphe and/or Latin lympha (“clear water”), from Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (nŭ́mphē, “bride; spring water”). Doublet of nymph.
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Medicine, Physiology, Sciences Usually A colourless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues and is carried by the lymphatic system into the bloodstream; it resembles blood plasma in containing white blood cells and especially lymphocytes but normally few red blood cells and no platelets.
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Immunology, Medicine, Sciences Usually The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.
- She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, page 268:
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cytolymph, endolymph, haemolymph, hemolymph, karyolymph, lymphadenia, lymphangiogenesis, lymphangiography, lymph gland, lymphitis, lymphlike, lymphlined, lymph-, lympho-, lymph node, lymphnode, lymphoblast, lymphœdema, lymphography, lymphoid, lymphosome, lymph vessel, lymphy, neurolymph, perilymph