Lymph

Definitions

1. Pure water.
   literary, obsolete, uncountable, usually
2. The sap of plants.
   archaic, literary, obsolete, uncountable, usually
3. 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.
   uncountable, usually
4. The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“She lay⟳ face-down, an infected puncture point⟳ on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.”

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