lymph (limf)

A clear fluid found in the lymphatic ve els and finally poured into the great veins at the nape of the neck. Chemically considered it consists of the substances found in the plasma of the blood. Histologically, it contains only white corpuscles (lymphocytes) and, after meals, the fat particles (chyle, fat) absorbed from the intestines, animal 1. Vaccine 1. from an animal, bovine 1. Vaccine 1. from a bovine animal, calf 1. Vaccine 1. from the calf, croupous 1. Of Rokitansky, the fibrinous exudation forming the false membrane in croup. dried 1. Vaccine 1. dried for preservation, glycerinated 1., glycerin e 1., glycerined 1., glycerin i zed 1. Tube vaccine 1. to which glycerin has been added to maintain its fluidity and to aid in its preservation, humanized 1. Vaccine 1. from the human subject, inflammatory 1. A l'like exudate due to inflammation, ti ue 1. Syn.: parenchymatous fluid. Lymph bathing the ti ue elements in contradistinction to that in the lymphatics, tube 1. Vaccine 1. preserved in the liquid form in sealed gla tubes, vaccinal 1., vaccine 1. The clear liquid contained in the pock of vaccinia, holding in suspension the microorganisms peculiar to the disease. In the human subject it exudes abundantly on multiple puncture of the pock on or before the eighth day after vaccination; in the cow its spontaneous flow is very sparing, but much of it may be squeezed out with forceps. Human vaccine 1. is viscid, but clear; that from the cow is often straw-colored. Inoculated directly from the pock or in the form of stored 1. (preserved in the liquid form in sealed gla tubes or dried between plates of gla or on a non-absorbent surface, and moistened at the time of use), vaccine 1. is employed in vaccination. vituline 1. See calf I. [Lat., lymph a. 1