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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lymphatic/lɪmˈfatɪk/

▶adjective

1 Physiology relating to lymph or its secretion.

2 archaic (of a person) pale, flabby, or sluggish.

▶noun Anatomy a vein-like vessel conveying lymph in the body.

– origin C17 (in the sense ‘frenzied, mad’): from L. lymphaticus ‘mad’, from Gk numpholēptos ‘seized by nymphs’; now assoc. with lymph.

'lymphatic' also found in these Oxford entries:

adenoids - Burkitt's lymphoma - chyle - elephantiasis - Hodgkin's disease - lacteal - lymph - lymphangitis - lymphatic system - lymph node - lymphocyte - sinus

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