Lymph

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lymph \Lymph\, n. [L. lympha: cf. F. lymphe.]
     1. A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent
        liquid like water.
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              A fountain bubbled up, whose lymph serene


              Nothing of earthly mixture might distain. --Trench.
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     2. (Anat.) An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the
        lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from
        red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various
        tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged
        by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great
        veins near the heart.
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     3. (Med.) A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels
        in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either
        absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding
        the inflamed surfaces together.
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     4. (Physiol. Chem.) A fluid containing certain products
        resulting from the growth of specific microorganisms upon
        some culture medium, and supposed to be possessed of
        curative properties.
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     {Lymph corpuscles} (Anat.), finely granular nucleated cells,
        identical with the colorless blood corpuscles, present in
        the lymph and chyle.
  
     {Lymph duct} (Anat.), a lymphatic.
  
     {Lymph heart}. See Note under {Heart}, n., 1.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lymph
       n : a thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing
           white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle; is conveyed to
           the blood stream by lymphatic vessels

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "lymph":
     chyle, colostrum, discharge, gleet, humor, ichor, lachryma,
     lactation, leukorrhea, matter, milk, mucor, mucus, peccant humor,
     phlegm, purulence, pus, rheum, saliva, sanies, serous fluid, serum,
     snot, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop, the whites, urine