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Definition of Interstitial fluid
1. Noun. Liquid found between the cells of the body that provides much of the liquid environment of the body.
Definition of Interstitial fluid
1. Noun. (context: physiology) A solution found in tissue spaces that inundates and moistens cells in multicellular animals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Interstitial fluid
1. The fluid in spaces between the tissue cells, constituting about 16% of the weight of the body; closely similar in composition to lymph. Synonym: tissue fluid. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interstitial Fluid
Literary usage of Interstitial fluid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Times and Gazette (1867)
"Just as blood oxidises in the lung on its exposure to air, so this interstitial
fluid oxidises when it is exposed to the atmospheric oxygen, (a) Suppose, ..."
2. The Lancet (1898)
"interstitial fluid, as I have already suggested, is intimately connected ...
The centripetal movement of the interstitial fluid towards living matter is, ..."
3. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"THE PHYSIOLOGY OF FLUID DISTRIBUTION Edema is a local or general increase in the
interstitial fluid of the body. Normally the interstitial compartment is ..."
4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1867)
"... not solids only, not blood only, but interstitial fluid, as it is proceeding
for solidification. Having exposed this fluid, he leaves a surface of it ..."
5. The Elements of Physiological and Pathological Chemistry: A Handbook for by Thomas Cranstoun Charles (1884)
"While the chyle is the assimilable extract of the chyme, the lymph may be regarded
in great part as the overflow of the interstitial fluid which is ..."
6. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"This thin wall permits the passage of blood plasma containing dissolved nutrients
and oxygen into the interstitial fluid in the vicinity of the cells, ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1870)
"&c., converse changes occurring in the interstitial fluid. But while the diffusible
products of oxidation thus find their way from the interstitial fluid to ..."
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