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body fluid

[ bod-ee floo-id ]

noun

  1. any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of body fluid1

First recorded in 1720–30

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Example Sentences

When left undisturbed in total darkness, the female mantises extrude a pronged structure inflated with body fluids, roughly the hue and luster of polished jade.

“The balance of attention must be shifted to protecting against airborne transmission,” they said, because people are “far more likely” to breathe in floating virus than be sprayed by quickly falling droplets of contaminated body fluid.

On his knees, fighting the waves of pain, he lost body fluid he vitally needed.

In every muscle the connective tissue is loose enough to allow body fluid to penetrate among the muscle cells.

Both the larv and adults of the monarch butterfly are distasteful to birds, by their possession of an acrid body-fluid.

Is there any way we can get some of his body fluid away from him?

There was a slight spurt of body fluid as the chitinous armor was partly broken.

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