lymph
Multiple Entries:lymph lymph- lympho-
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lymph /lɪmf/
▶noun
- 1 Physiology a colourless fluid containing white blood cells, which bathes the tissues and drains through the lymphatic system into the bloodstream.
■ fluid exuding from a sore or inflamed tissue.
- 2 literary pure water.
– origin C16: from Fr. lymphe or L. lympha, limpa ‘water’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lymph-
▶combining form variant spelling of lympho- shortened before a vowel, as in lymphangitis.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lympho- /ˈlɪmfəʊ/ (also lymph- before a vowel)
▶combining form representing lymph: lymphocyte.
'lymph' also found in these Oxford entries:
angiogram
- angiography
- bubo
- chancroid
- duct
- endocrine
- farcy
- filariasis
- gland
- glandular fever
- Hodgkin's disease
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- limpid
- lymph-
- lymphadenitis
- lymphadenopathy
- lymphatic
- lymphatic system
- lymph gland
- lymph node
- lympho-
- lymphoma
- node
- plasma
- pope's eye
- sarcoidosis
- strangles
