lymph

See also: lymph-

English

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lymph

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Alternative forms

• lymphe (rare, archaic)

Etymology

Borrowing from French lymphe and/or Latin lympha (“clear water”), from Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (nŭ́mphē, “bride; spring water”). Doublet of nymph.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪmf/, [lɪmpf]

  • Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɪmf

Noun

lymph (usually uncountable, plural lymphs)

1. (obsolete, literary) Pure water.
   1. (archaic, botany) The sap of plants.
3. (physiology) 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.
   1. (immunology) The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.
      • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, page 268:

        She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.

Derived terms

• 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

Related terms

• lymphatic
• nymph

Translations

fluid carried by the lymphatic system

Afrikaans: limf Arabic: لِمْف m (limf) Armenian: ավիշ (hy) (aviš) Bulgarian: лимфа (bg) f (limfa) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: limfa (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 淋巴 (lam4 baa1) Mandarin: 淋巴 (zh) (línbā) Czech: míza (cs) f Danish: lymfe (da) c Dutch: lymfe (nl) f, lymf (nl) f Esperanto: limfo Finnish: imuneste (fi), lymfa (fi) French: lymphe (fr) f Georgian: ლიმფა (limpa) German: Lymphe (de) f Greek: λύμφη (el) f (lýmfi), λέμφος (el) f (lémfos) Hebrew: לימפה (he) f (límfa) Hindi: लसीका (hi) f (lasīkā) Hungarian: nyirok (hu) Icelandic: vessi m, sogæðavökvi m Indonesian: limfa (id), getah bening (id) Irish: limfe f Italian: linfa (it) f Japanese: リンパ液 (ja) (リンパえき, rinpa-eki) Kazakh: лимфа (limfa) Khmer: ទឹករងៃ (tɨk rɔngɨy) Korean: 림프 (ko) (rimpeu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: lîmf Latin: lympha f Macedonian: лимфа f (limfa) Malayalam: ലിംഫ് (limphŭ) Maori: waitinana, wētaikiri Mongolian: Cyrillic: лимфа (limfa), тунгалаг (mn) (tungalag) Mongolian: ᠲᠤᠩᠭᠠᠯᠠᠭ (tungɣalag) Nepali: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: lymfe m Nynorsk: lymfe f Ottoman Turkish: لنفا (lenfa) Persian: لنف (fa) Polish: chłonka (pl) f, limfa (pl) f Portuguese: linfa (pt) f Romanian: limfă (ro) Russian: ли́мфа (ru) f (límfa) Slovak: miazga f Spanish: linfa (es) f Swedish: lymfa (sv) c Thai: น้ำเหลือง (th) (nám-lʉ̌ʉang) Tibetan: ཆུ་སེར (chu ser) Turkish: ak kan (tr), lenf (tr) Udmurt: тӧдьывир (töďyvir) Vietnamese: bạch huyết (vi) (白血) Welsh: gwaedlyn m

References

• “lymph”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “lymph”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.