serosityn.
/sɪˈrɒsɪti/ 1.
a. Watery fluid in an animal body; the serous or watery part of blood or milk, serum; frequently plural in 17–18th centuries = watery humours.
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whey1578
serosity1601
ichor1638
serum1672
albumen1683
blood serum1834
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Catal. Words Art Serosities, or Serous humours, bee the thinner parts of the masse of bloud, answering to the whey in milke.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. iii. 110 The salt and lixiviated serosity with some portion of choler, is divided betweene the guts and bladder.
1685 J. Chamberlayne tr. A. Colmenero de Ladesma Treat. Chocolate in P. S. Dufour Manner of making Coffee, Tea, & Chocolate 66 The Cheese, which hinders and stops the flux of the Belly, the serosity or Cream which is purgative.
1753 N. Torriano tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 16 From the two Nostrils there dropt a very sharp and corrosive Serosity (i.e. Ichor).
1771 T. Percival Ess. Med. & Exper. (1777) I. 243 By the seasonable discharge of the serosities, the fever..is..moderated.
1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 107 A bloody serosity.
1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 216 The lateral ventricles..become distended with serosity (acute hydrocephalus).
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 481 The eruption consists of papules infiltrated with serosity.
b. A yellowish alkaline liquid produced when serum is heated.
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serosity1807
serolin1835
paraglobin1868
paraglobulin1868
haptoglobin1941
transferrin1947
1807 J. Murray Syst. Chem. IV. 531 If the coagulated mixture, obtained by the action of heat on serum, be gently pressed, there flows from it a liquor somewhat turbid, named the Serosity.
1836 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 4) 1137.
2. The condition of being serous. rare.
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1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. i. 232 The too great Serosity or Viscidity of the Blood.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 466 The mass of the blood..is too copiously dissolved into a state of serosity.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xii. 207 Deficient serosity of the blood from excessive sweating.
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