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lymph vessel

lymph vessel

5.8
A thin tube in the body that carries a clear fluid back to the blood
  • noun
  • /lɪmf ˈvɛsəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : vaso linfático
  • Lymph vessels carry the lymph fluid back to the circulation via the lymph nodes.
  • blood and lymph vessel

Examples

  • In women with this condition, cancer cells block lymph vessels in the skin of the breast, which often appears red and swollen.

  • The nature of the tissue recovery is determined by the resilience of the specific tissues and the tissue structures, including the blood and lymph vessels (2).

    Academic text (1993)

  • Because my tumor was so large and involved the lymph vessels just under the skin (as all cases of inflammatory breast cancer do), all the affected skin had to be removed.

    Blog text (5)

  • Hyaluronan in articular cartilage is degraded while lymph vessels remove most of the hyaluronan in the rest of the joint.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Microsurgery to reconstruct damaged lymph vessels has been tried, too.

Synonyms

vessel
vslymph vessel
  • Specialized
141 4.0

A tube in the body that carries blood or lymph

is the narrower term for tubes that return immune drainage to the bloodstream
lymphatic vessel
vslymph vessel
  • Specialized
6.7

A thin tube that carries clear tissue fluid back into the blood

is the same meaning but expressed in a different word form

Surface Forms

lymph vessel singular
lymph vessels plural

Morphology

lymph + vessel

The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'lymph' (the fluid of the lymphatic system) + 'vessel' (a tubular structure that carries fluid), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a tube that carries lymph. This noun–noun compounding follows a regular, cross-linguistic medical naming pattern and is therefore transparent to B1 learners who know the constituents.

Etymology

Lymph vessel combines lymph, a clear 'fluid' that moves in the body, and vessel, a tube that carries liquid, creating a simple picture of a small pipe carrying fluid. So it means a thin tube that carries lymph and returns it to the 'bloodstream'.