Lymph vs Lymphedema - What's the difference?
lymph | lymphedema |
(obsolete, poetical) Pure water.
(physiology, immunology) A colourless, watery, bodily fluid carried by the lymphatic system, that consists mainly of white blood cells.
Discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.
* 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 268:
(medicine) The swelling of tissue due to retention of fluid in the lymph vessels
As nouns the difference between lymph and lymphedema
is that lymph is (obsolete|poetical) pure water while lymphedema is (medicine) the swelling of tissue due to retention of fluid in the lymph vessels.lymph
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* lymphe (rare or archaic)Noun
(-)- She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph .