lymph — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Pure water.

   Usage

   • Literary
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable
   • usually

2. Pure water. The sap of plants.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Literary
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable
   • usually

3. 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.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Synonyms

   lymphatic fluidlymphatic liquid

4. The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.

Noun

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

   Broader terms

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