LYMPH VESSEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lymph vessel mean? 

• LYMPH VESSEL (noun)
  The noun LYMPH VESSEL has 1 sense:

1. a vascular duct that carries lymph which is eventually added to the venous blood circulation

  Familiarity information: LYMPH VESSEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYMPH VESSEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vascular duct that carries lymph which is eventually added to the venous blood circulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

lymph vessel; lymphatic vessel

Hypernyms ("lymph vessel" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lymph vessel"):

thoracic duct (the major duct of the lymphatic system)

lacteal (any of the lymphatic vessels that convey chyle from the small intestine to the thoracic duct)

Holonyms ("lymph vessel" is a part of...):

lymphatic system; systema lymphaticum (the interconnected system of spaces and vessels between body tissues and organs by which lymph circulates throughout the body)

 Context examples 

The movement of a cell or a foreign substance through the wall of a blood or lymph vessel into the vessel itself.

(Intravasation, NCI Dictionary)

A type of metastasis in which skin cancer spreads through a lymph vessel and begins to grow more than 2 centimeters away from the primary tumor but before it reaches the nearest lymph node.

(In-transit metastasis, NCI Dictionary)