lymph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowing from French lymphe and/or Latin lympha (“clear water”), from Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (nŭ́mphē, “bride; spring water”). Doublet of nymph.
Inflected forms:
form: lymphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lymphe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
rare
Senses:
gloss: Pure water.
pos: noun
tags: literary
obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: Pure water.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
literary
obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.
Related words: lymphatic
nymph
Derived words: cytolymph
endolymph
haemolymph
hemolymph
karyolymph
lymphadenia
lymphangiogenesis
lymphangiography
lymph gland
lymphitis
lymphlike
lymphlined
lymph-
lympho-
lymph node
lymphnode
lymphoblast
lymphœdema
lymphography
lymphoid
lymphosome
lymph vessel
lymphy
neurolymph
perilymph
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: ажьӡы́
roman: aždzə́
lang: Abkhaz
word: али́мфа
roman: alímfa
lang: Afrikaans
word: limf
lang: Arabic
word: لِمْف
roman: limf
lang: Armenian
word: ավիշ
roman: aviš
lang: Bulgarian
word: лимфа
roman: limfa
lang: Catalan
word: limfa
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 淋巴
roman: lam⁴ baa¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 淋巴
roman: línbā
lang: Czech
word: míza
lang: Danish
word: lymfe
lang: Dutch
word: lymfe
lang: Dutch
word: lymf
lang: Esperanto
word: limfo
lang: Finnish
word: imuneste
lang: Finnish
word: lymfa
lang: French
word: lymphe
lang: Georgian
word: ლიმფა
roman: limpa
lang: German
word: Lymphe
lang: Greek
word: λύμφη
roman: lýmfi
lang: Greek
word: λέμφος
roman: lémfos
lang: Hebrew
word: לימפה
roman: límfa
lang: Hindi
word: लसीका
roman: lasīkā
lang: Hungarian
word: nyirok
lang: Icelandic
word: vessi
lang: Icelandic
word: sogæðavökvi
lang: Indonesian
word: limfa
lang: Indonesian
word: getah bening
lang: Irish
word: limfe
lang: Italian
word: linfa
lang: Japanese
word: リンパ液
roman: rinpa-eki
lang: Kazakh
word: лимфа
roman: limfa
lang: Khmer
word: ទឹករងៃ
roman: tɨk rɔɔrɔngɨy
lang: Korean
word: 림프
roman: rimpeu
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: lîmf
lang: Latin
word: lympha
lang: Macedonian
word: лимфа
roman: limfa
lang: Malayalam
word: ലിംഫ്
roman: limphŭ
lang: Māori
word: waitinana
lang: Māori
word: wētaikiri
lang: Mongolian
word: лимфа
roman: limfa
lang: Mongolian
word: тунгалаг
roman: tungalag
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠲᠤᠩᠭᠠᠯᠠᠭ
roman: tungɣalag
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lymfe
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: lymfe
lang: Persian
word: لنف
lang: Polish
word: chłonka
lang: Polish
word: limfa
lang: Portuguese
word: linfa
lang: Romanian
word: limfă
lang: Russian
word: ли́мфа
roman: límfa
lang: Sikkimese
word: ཆུ་སེར
roman: chu ser
lang: Slovak
word: miazga
lang: Spanish
word: linfa
lang: Swedish
word: lymfa
lang: Thai
word: น้ำเหลือง
roman: nám-lʉ̌ʉang
lang: Tibetan
word: ཆུ་སེར
roman: chu ser
lang: Turkish
word: ak kan
lang: Turkish
word: lenf
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: لنفا
roman: lenfa
lang: Udmurt
word: тӧдьывир
roman: töďyvir
lang: Vietnamese
word: bạch huyết
lang: Welsh
word: gwaedlyn