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Lymphatic   /lˌɪmfˈætɪk/   Listen
noun
Lymphatic  n.  
1.
(Anat.) One of the lymphatic or absorbent vessels, which carry lymph and discharge it into the veins; lymph duct; lymphatic duct.
2.
A mad enthusiast; a lunatic. (Obs.)



adjective
Lymphatic  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
2.
Madly enthusiastic; frantic. (Obs.) " Lymphatic rapture. "
Lymphatic gland (Anat.), one of the solid glandlike bodies connected with the lymphatics or the lacteals; called also lymphatic ganglion, and conglobate gland.
Lymphatic temperament (Old Physiol.), a temperament in which the lymphatic system seems to predominate, that is, a system in which the complexion lacks color and the tissues seem to be of loose texture; hence, a temperament lacking energy, inactive, indisposed to exertion or excitement. See Temperament.






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"Lymphatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... its way into the lymphatic vessels is probably as follows:—I have already mentioned the inconceivable delicacy of the capillary vessels, those last ramifications of our arteries and veins. It needs all the impulsive power of the heart to enable ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace

... Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks, Mechanicks, and Natural Experiments; with the state of these studies and their cultivation at home and abroad. We then discoursed of the circulation of the blood, the valves in the veins, the venae lacteae, the lymphatic vessels, the Copernican hypothesis, the nature of comets and new stars, the satellites of Jupiter, the oval shape (as it then appeared) of Saturn, the spots on the sun and its turning on its own axis, the inequalities and selenography of the moon, ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley

... the doctor may say with Augustus, "and I leave it a city." It is amusing to see the awful submission which the city-builder expects in return. The most refractory of patients trembles at the threat of his case being abandoned. The doctor has his theories about situation. You are lymphatic, and are ordered down to the very edge of the sea; you are excitable, and must hurry from your comfortable lodgings to the highest nook among the hills. He has his theories about diet, and you sink obediently to milk and water. His one object of hostility and contempt is your ...
— Stray Studies from England and Italy • John Richard Green

... involuntarily. And how many millions there are who live from day to day by the incessant operation of subtle processes in them, of which they know nothing, and care less? Little ween they, of vessels lacteal and lymphatic, of arteries femoral and temporal; of pericranium or pericardium; lymph, chyle, fibrin, albumen, iron in the blood, and pudding in the head; they live by the charity of their bodies, to which they are but butlers. I say, my lord, our bodies are our betters. A soul so ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville

... curtsey, and found myself confronting a large, light-haired, languid, lymphatic lady—who had evidently been amusing herself by walking up and down the room, at the moment when I appeared. If there can be such a thing as a damp woman—this was one. There was a humid shine on her colorless white face, and an overflow of water in her pale blue eyes. Her ...
— Poor Miss Finch • Wilkie Collins


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