Dictionary entry details
• BODY FLUID (noun)
Meaning:
The liquid parts of the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
bodily fluid; body fluid; liquid body substance; humour; humor
Hypernyms ("body fluid" is a kind of...):
body substance (the substance of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body fluid"):
aqueous humor; aqueous humour (the limpid fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens)
chyle (a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats)
lymph (a thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle; is conveyed to the blood stream by lymphatic vessels)
come; cum; ejaculate; seed; semen; seminal fluid (the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract)
ink (dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods)
secretion (a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell)
black bile; melancholy (a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy)
choler; yellow bile (a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger)
lochia (substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth)
festering; ichor; purulence; pus; sanies; suppuration (a fluid product of inflammation)
blood serum; serum (watery fluid of the blood that resembles plasma but contains fibrinogen)
blood (the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart)
vitreous body; vitreous humor; vitreous humour (the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball)
endolymph (the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear)
perilymph (the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear)
ECF; extracellular fluid (liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid)
intracellular fluid (liquid contained inside the cell membranes (usually containing dissolved solutes))
juice; succus (any of several liquids of the body)
karyolymph (a clear liquid in the cell nucleus in which the nucleolus and chromatin and other structures are dispersed)
milk (produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young)
amnionic fluid; amniotic fluid; waters (the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion)
cerebrospinal fluid; spinal fluid (clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain; fills and protects cavities in the brain and spinal cord)
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