flu'id

Having the property of fluidity; as a n., a body whose molecules move easily among themselves, and change their relative positions so that the ma immediately takes the form of a ve el containing it. allantoic f. See under allantoic. amniotic f. See liquor amnii, under amnion, aqueous f. See aqueous humor, under humor, ascitic f., examination of; see in appendix, page —. battery f. See liquor electropolicus [N. F.]. Burnett's disinfecting f. See under Burnett. celian f. The cerebrospinal f. in the central canal of the spinal cord and the ventricles of the brain, celomic f. The f. or lymph in the celomic or pleuroperitoneal space. cerebrospinal f. The liquid in the subarachnoid space and in the celes or ventricles and central canal of the central nervous space. Coley's f. See under Coley. colostric f. See colostrum. Condy's f. See under Condy. electric f. See electricity, galvanic f. See under electricity, intestinal f. See intestinal juice, under juice, labyrinthine f. See perilymph, lacteal f. Any white fluid of the body, e. g., the milk or the secretion of the prostate gland, magnetic f. A supposititious imponderable f. by whose agency the phenomena of magnetism manifest themselves. Miiller's f. See under Mutter. nervous f. The hypothetical fluid which circulates throughout the nervous system, and is concerned in motion and sensation. parenchymatous f. See ti ue lymph, under lymph. Pasteur's f. See under Pasteur, per i axial f. Of Klebs, the f. immediately surrounding the axis cylinder of nerve fibers, seminal f., spermatic f. See semen, subarachnoid f. See cerebrospinal f. [Lat., fluidum, from fluere, to flow.]