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The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

That part of anatomy which treats of blood vessels and lymphatics.

Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body. Dunglison.

the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.

Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.

A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. Quain's Anat. Red blood…

Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.

Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.

To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.

The thin epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities. See Epithelium.

he alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymphatics, serous cavities, etc. It often includes the epidermis (i. e., keratin-producing epithelial cells), and it is sometimes restricted to the alimentary canal, the glands and their appendages, -- the term endothelium being…

A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.

A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.

An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.

A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc.

A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.

To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.

Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.