Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to lymph, a lymph vessel, or a lymph node.
- adj. Lacking energy or vitality; sluggish.
- n. A vessel that conveys lymph.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Containing, conveying, or pertaining in any way to lymph or chyle: as, a lymphatic vessel; a lymphatic gland.
- Dull; sluggish; slow in thought or action, as if from an excess of lymph in the body.
- n. A vessel which conveys lymph. The lymphatics are small transparent vessels arising in the various tissues, provided with valves like the veins, and running toward the heart. They are occasionally interrupted by lymphatic glands, and convey the leakage from the blood-vascular system and the waste of the tissues back into the venous system. The place of discharge for the drainage of the rightside of the head, right arm, and adjacent regions of the trunk is at the junction of the right subclavian and right jugular veins, while the lymph from all the rest of the body through the thoracic duct pours into the blood at the corresponding place on the left side. That part of the lymphatic system which runs from the intestine takes up some of the products of digestion, and the vessels are here called
lacteals . - Making or being distracted or frantic.
- n. A mad enthusiast; a lunatic.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to lymph or the lymphatic system.
- adj. Lacking energy of enthusiasm.
- n. A vessel that transports lymph.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
- adj. Madly enthusiastic; frantic.
- n. One of the lymphatic or absorbent vessels, which carry lymph and discharge it into the veins; lymph duct; lymphatic duct.
- n. A mad enthusiast; a lunatic.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or produced by lymph
Etymologies
- New Latin lymphaticus, from Latin lympha, lymph; see lymph.
Examples
“It's believed to be caused by nonliving proteins called prions, which accumulate in lymphatic and nerve tissue and literally create holes in the victim's brain (hence the "sponge" of "spongiform").”
“As the invading germs pass into the body, they travel most commonly through the lymph-channels and skin; are arrested and threatened with destruction by the so-called lymphatic glands, or lymph-nodes.”
“These lacteal and lymphatic vessels are furnished with numerous valves to prevent the return of the fluids, which they absorb, and terminate in glands, called lymphatic glands, and may hence be considered as long necks or mouths belonging to these glands.”
“In addition to our network of blood vessels, humans have a network of vessels known as lymphatic vessels.”
“Every cell in your body is surrounded by fluids called lymphatic fluids.”
“Maddox's malformation, called lymphatic cystic hygroma, caused large tumours to form on the left side of his face.”
“Shimko, 30, a Newport Beach native, avid waterman and outdoor enthusiast, is currently recovering from Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the part of the human body's immune system known as the lymphatic system.”
“In Léogâne, the supplies go to a hospital set up by the University of Notre Dame, which already had a presence there running a program to combat a parasitic disease called lymphatic filariasis.”
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