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lymphatic, a. and n.|lɪmˈfætɪk|
Also 7–8 lymphatick, (8 limphatic).
[ad. L. lymphātic-us mad, frenzied, f. lympha lymph. In mod. scientific Latin the word has been used in the sense ‘pertaining to lymph’ (the ending having been prob. misapprehended to be identical with that of spermatic, etc.); so F. lymphatique, It. linfatico.
The classical Lat. word is difficult to account for; perh. it may be due to the association of lympha with νύµϕη (see lymph); cf. Gr. νυµϕιᾶν to be frenzy-stricken.]
A. adj.
†I.
1. Frenzied, mad. Obs.
1656Blount Glossogr. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 51 Poets are fanaticks too. And thus Horace either is, or feigns himself lymphatick, and shews what an effect the vision of the nymphs and Bacchus had on him. 1727Bailey vol. II, Lymphatick Persons. 1822S. Burder Orient. Lit. I. 120 The frog, like the tortoise and crocodile, was an emblem..of lymphatic prophecy.
II. In senses connected with lymph.
2. a. Phys. and Anat. Pertaining to lymph; concerned in the secretion or conveyance of lymph, as in lymphatic gland, lymphatic vessel; lymphatic system, the lymphatic vessels and glands collectively; lymphatic heart = lymph-heart. Also, of the nature of lymph as in lymphatic fluid, lymphatic humour (? obs.).
1649Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 257 Came to visit me Dr. Ioyliffe, discoverer of the lymphatic vessels, and an excellent anatomist. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. x. 224 The late anatomical discoveries of the motion of the chyle and limphatick liquor..hath yet made men cure diseases much better than before. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 428 In the serous part of the Blood affecting the lymphatick Arteries. 1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 351 A lymphatic or lacteal humour and the blood circulate from the mother into the placenta and fœtus. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 34 Perhaps originating in lymphatic glands. 1830R. Knox Béclard's Anat. 213 The Lymphatic System comprehends, 1st, the vessels which carry the lymph and chyle into the veins, and 2dly, Enlargements which occur in their course, and which are called conglobate glands, or lymphatic ganglia. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 59 Upon their junction with the veins of this latter region, contractile sacs, the so-called ‘lymphatic hearts’, are developed. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 457 Growth of this kind should..be called..lymphatic gland sarcoma.
†b. Bot. Containing or conveying sap. Obs.
1672–3Grew Anat. Plants ii. iii. (1682) 69 Whence it should seem that Lymphatick Rays and Milky Rings are in that Root [Dandelion] so far mixed together. 1836Loudon Encycl. Plants Gloss., Lymphatic, of or belonging to lymph or sap.
3. Of persons and their temperaments: Having the characteristics (flabby muscles, pale skin, sluggishness of vital and mental action) formerly supposed to result from an excess of lymph in the system.
1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 319 In..persons of a lymphatic habit, the skin becomes white. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-Bks. II. 31 A widow..of an easy, lymphatic, cheerful temperament. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xxxv, With lymphatic approbation. 1872Huxley Physiol. iii. 72 Persons of flabby, or what is called lymphatic constitution. 1885Truth 28 May 850/2 Her flesh being..lymphatic, and her outlines wanting in firmness.
B. n.
†1. A lunatic, a madman. (See A. 1.) Obs.
1708Shaftesbury Charac. (1711) I. 50 All Nations have their Lymphaticks of some kind or another. a1763Shenstone Elegies xvi. 34 From Bethlem's walls the poor lymphatic stray'd.
2. Chiefly pl. Vessels similar to veins, whose special function is the conveyance of lymph. † Also applied to the sap-vessels in plants. Obs.
1667Phil. Trans. II. 509 The trunk of the Lymphaticks. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 145 The Tumour..breaks the Limphatics which abound near the Liver. 1768Hewson in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 219 Into this lymphatic some small branches from the kidneys seem to enter. 1826Good Bk. Nat. (1834) I. 164 Like the perfect plant, it possesses lymphatics and air-vessels. 1881Mivart Cat 349 The small lymphatics originate by the junction of nucleated cells. |