lymphous, a. Phys.
(ˈlɪmfəs)
[f. lymph + -ous.]
† a. Of vegetable fluids: Watery (obs.). b. Of animal fluids: Containing, of the nature of, or resembling lymph.
| 1672–3 Grew Anat. Plants ii. iii. (1682) 67 The Milky Saps..agree, in being more Oyly than any of the Lymphous Saps. 1876 W. Roberts Urin. & Renal Dis. ii. iv. (ed. 3) 323 The coagulum in lymphous urine resembles calf's foot or currant jelly. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 1078 The lymphous fluid soiling the patient's clothes. |