Lymph

Swollen lymph nodes are usually found near the site of an infection, tumour, or inflammation.

You have a cold and your lymph nodes are swollen.

Beneath that tree’s great shadow on the plain a fountain bubbled up, whose lymph serene nothing of earthly mixture might distain: fountain so pure not anywhere was seen in all the world, nor on whose marge the earth put flowers of such unfading beauty forth.

More than one billion people in 80 countries are at risk of contracting lymphatic filariasis, known as elephantiasis, which is transmitted by mosquitos infected with parasitic filarial worms. The worms lodge in the lymphatic system, causing accumulations of lymph fluid that lead to massive swellings of limbs, usually the feet.

She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.