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Definition of Lymph

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

Definition of Lymph

1. n. A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water.

2. n. A fluid containing certain products resulting from the growth of specific microörganisms upon some culture medium, and supposed to be possessed of curative properties.

Definition of Lymph

1. Noun. (physiology immunology) A colourless, watery, bodily fluid carried by the lymphatic system, that consists mainly of white blood cells. ¹

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Definition of Lymph

1. a body fluid containing white blood cells [n -S] : LYMPHOID [adj]

Medical Definition of Lymph

1. The almost colourless fluid that bathes body tissues and is found in the lymphatic vessels that drain the tissues of the fluid that filters across the blood vessel walls from blood. Lymph carries lymphocytes that have entered the lymph nodes from the blood. (12 May 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lymph

Literary usage of Lymph

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"THE CIRCULATION OF THE lymph. The direction of flow of the lymph is from the ... The opening between the lymph vessel and the vein is protected by a valve ..."

2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"Lastly, if the processes which give rise to the appearance of lymph in the lymph-spaces of the tissues are, as we shall see we have at least some reason to ..."

3. Text-book of Meat Hygiene: With Special Consideration to Ante-mortem and by Richard Heinrich Edelmann, John Robbins Mohler (1908)
"G. lymph Glands and lymph Vessels Of the lymphatic system the lymph glands, which lately have been designated a,s lymph nodes, are especially of great ..."

4. The Journal of Biological Chemistry by American Society of Biological Chemists (1917)
"The question of the absorption of protein by way of the lymph has not been considered since the true significance of protein digestion has been known. ..."

5. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1889)
"The lacteal radicle of a villus (§ 262) is such a lymph- capillary, more or less tubular in form, or perhaps club-shaped and sometimes bifurcate or branched ..."

6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"lymph AND CHYLE. lymph is a transparent, colorless or slightly yellow fluid, ... These vessels arise in nearly all parts of the body as lymph-capillaries. ..."

7. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"The efferent vessels begin in the medullary part of the gland, and are continuous with the lymph-path here as the afferent vessels are with the cortical ..."

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