Lymph

The Student's Medical Dictionary · 1896 · p. 374
[limf)\_lymph a, water]. I. The fluid in the lymphatic ve els, the product of the filtration of the liquid portion of the blood through the walls of the capillaries. 2. The coagulable exudate on an inflamed surface. 3. The liquid material used for vaccination; vaccine-lymph. L., Animal, vaccine-lymph obtained from an animal. L.-cell, L.- corpuscle, a leukocyte occurring in the lymph. L. -follicles, small collections of lymph adenoid ti ue occurring in mucous membranes. L. -hearts, certain organs found in the frog and in some fishes, which are to the lymph-stream what the blood-heart is to the blood-stream. L., Humanized, vaccine from a human being. L., Inflammatory, that thrown out as a product of inflam ation in wounds, etc. L., Koch’s, tub erculin. L., Plastic, fibrinous lymph; that forming embryonic ti ue. L.-scrotum, an enlargement of the scrotum due to distention of the lymphatic ve els and hyperplasia of the ti ues. L.-spaces, the lacunae occurring in connective ti ue and containing lymph. 374
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