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Lymphatic adj.

Pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lymphatic" Quotes from Famous Books

... is all the more extraordinary," said Roubaud, "because they are lymphatic, and we, as a general thing, are ...

— The Village Rector • Honore de Balzac

... blood and tissues generally. The lymphatics seem to spring from the parts in which they are found, like the rootlets of a plant in the soil. They carry a turbid, slightly yellowish fluid, called lymph, very much like blood without the red corpuscles. The lymph is carried to the lymphatic glands where it undergoes certain changes to fit it ...

— Valere Aude - Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration • Louis Dechmann

... traces of it now. Mrs. Peck might have been beautiful at sixteen, but her life had not been so conservative of her charms as Mrs. Phillips's was; besides, Mrs. Phillips resembled her father much more than her mother, and he had been of a much more lymphatic temperament, and was at the same time a remarkably handsome man. Mrs. Peck was not yet sixty, but she looked old for her years, and more like the grandmother than the mother of Mrs. Phillips, whose easy circumstances, indulgent husband, and indolent, self-regarding life, ...

— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence

Words linked to "Lymphatic" : lymph, lymphatic system