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noun
Any liquid portion of the body, such as blood, urine, semen, saliva, especially when expelled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the liquid parts of the body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: liquid body substance, body fluid, humor, humour
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: body substance
Narrower terms: aqueous humor, aqueous humour, vitreous humor, vitreous humour, vitreous body, endolymph, perilymph, extracellular fluid, ECF, intracellular fluid, juice, succus, karyolymph, milk, amniotic fluid, amnionic fluid, waters, blood, serum, blood serum, chyle, lymph, semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come, ink, secretion, black bile, melancholy, yellow bile, choler, lochia, pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering, spinal fluid, cerebrospinal fluid
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