Lymph

Lymph (Gr. lympha, 'water') is the term applied by physiologists to the fluid contained in the Lymphatics (q.v.). It is a colourless or faintly-yellowish fluid, of a rather saltish taste, and with an alkaline reaction. It coagulates shortly after its removal from the living body, and forms a jelly-like, semi-solid mass, which continues for some time to contract, so that at last the clot is very small in proportion to the expressed serum. On microscopic examination the lymph is seen to contain corpuscles which do not in any respect differ from the colourless blood-cells, molecular granules, fat-globules, and occasionally blood-corpuscles.