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usually uncountable, plural lymphs
(obsolete, literary) Pure water.
(archaic, botany) The sap of plants.
(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.
(immunology) The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc. quotations
She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.
2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, page 268