单词 | lymph |
释义 | lymph/lɪmf![]() noun [mass noun] 1 Physiology A colourless fluid containing white blood cells, which bathes the tissues and drains through the lymphatic system into the bloodstream.This includes cell salts, fatty tissue, lymph, red and white blood cells, two glands of the endocrine system and even the bones....
1.1Fluid exuding from a sore or inflamed tissue.He did not know the specific infective agent but was certain that a treatment would soon be available in the form of a ‘vaccine of Pasteur or lymph of Koch.’...
2 literary Pure water.I refreshed myself in the mid-day heat by drinking its pure lymph from the hollow of my hand, and gazed with long and insatiable delight upon the memorable fountain. OriginLate 16th century (in sense 2): from French lymphe or Latin lympha, limpa 'water'. Rhymes |
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