lymph
nounA clear, watery, sometimes faintly yellowish fluid derived from body tissues that contains white blood cells and circulates throughout the lymphatic system, returning to the venous bloodstream through the thoracic duct. Lymph acts to remove bacteria and certain proteins from the tissues, transport fat from the small intestine, and supply mature lymphocytes to the blood.
nounA spring or stream of pure, clear water.
nounAny antitoxic serum, as vaccine virus.
nounPure, clear water, or any fluid similarly transparent.
nounIn physiology, a fluid in animal bodies, contained in certain vessels called
A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water.
nounAn 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.
nounA 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.
nounA fluid containing certain products resulting from the growth of specific microorganisms upon some culture medium, and supposed to be possessed of curative properties.
nounfinely granular nucleated cells, identical with the colorless blood corpuscles, present in the lymph and chyle.