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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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lymph
n 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
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lymph [limf]
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lymph

Lymphe f [anat.]
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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



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