lymphatic

adj
/lɪmˈfæ.tɪk/

Etymology

From lymph + -atic.

  1. derived from νῠ́μφη
  2. borrowed from lympha
  3. borrowed from lymphe
  4. formed as lymphatic — “lymph + -atic

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to lymph or the lymphatic system.

  2. Lacking energy or enthusiasm

    Lacking energy or enthusiasm; having characteristics once associated with an excess of lymph: lack of muscle tone, paleness, sluggishness, etc.

    • Eleonore Lemindre, aged 34, tailoress, of a sanguine lymphatic temperament, having suffered great depression of spirits, experienced, in the course of 1820, symptoms of what is called disease of the heart.
    • Who has not marked, where the full cheek should be, Incipient lines of lank flaccidity, Lymphatic pallor where the pink should glow, And where the throb of transport, pulses low?—
  3. Madly enthusiastic

    Madly enthusiastic; frantic.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A vessel that transports lymph.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lymphatic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at lymphatic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at lymphatic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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