BODILY FLUID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bodily fluid mean? 

• BODILY FLUID (noun)
  The noun BODILY FLUID has 1 sense:

1. the liquid parts of the body

  Familiarity information: BODILY FLUID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODILY FLUID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The liquid parts of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance

Hypernyms ("bodily fluid" is a kind of...):

body substance (the substance of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bodily fluid"):

blood serum; serum (an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates)

cerebrospinal fluid; spinal fluid (clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain; fills and protects cavities in the brain and spinal cord)

festering; ichor; purulence; pus; sanies; suppuration (a fluid product of inflammation)

lochia (substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth)

choler; yellow bile (a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger)

black bile; melancholy (a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy)

secretion (a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell)

ink (dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods)

come; cum; ejaculate; seed; semen; seminal fluid (the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract)

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)

chyle (a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats)

aqueous humor; aqueous humour (the limpid fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens)

blood (the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets)

amnionic fluid; amniotic fluid; waters (the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion)

milk (produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young)

karyolymph (a clear liquid in the cell nucleus in which the nucleolus and chromatin and other structures are dispersed)

juice; succus (any of several liquids of the body)

intracellular fluid (liquid contained inside the cell membranes (usually containing dissolved solutes))

ECF; extracellular fluid (liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid)

perilymph (the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear)

endolymph (the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear)

vitreous body; vitreous humor; vitreous humour (the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball)

 Context examples 

The bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear.

(Perilymph, NCI Thesaurus)

HBV can be contracted through contact with an infected person's blood or other bodily fluid, and the infection can either be acute or chronic, Science Daily reported.

(An Aspirin A Day Keep Liver Cancer Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Procedure using suction, usually with a thin needle and syringe, to remove bodily fluid or tissue.

(Aspiration, NCI Thesaurus)

The serological bodily fluid tests that already existed were developed by multinationals and had been tested in areas that were not endemic to dengue, giving cross results.

(New blood test to detect Zika approved in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

The bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear.

(Endolymph, NCI Thesaurus)

Procedure using a thin needle and syringe to remove bodily fluid or tissue from the breast.

(Aspiration of Breast, NCI Thesaurus)