lymph
See also: lymph-
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- lymphe (rare, archaic)
Etymology edit
Borrowing from French lymphe and/or Latin lympha (“clear water”), from Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (númphē, “bride; spring water”). Doublet of nymph.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lymph (usually uncountable, plural lymphs)
- (obsolete, literary) Pure water.
- (physiology) 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.
- (immunology) The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, page 268:
- She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.
- (immunology) The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.
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Translations edit
fluid carried by the lymphatic system
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References edit
- “lymph”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “lymph”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.