lymph node

lymph node

English

Alternative forms

• lymphnode, lymphonode

Noun

lymph node (plural lymph nodes)

1. (anatomy, immunology) Each of the small oval bodies of the lymphatic system, distributed along the lymphatic vessels, that are clustered in the armpits, groin, neck, chest and abdomen. They act as filters, with an internal honeycomb of connective tissue filled with lymphocytes and macrophages that collect and destroy bacteria, viruses and foreign matter from lymph. When the body is fighting an infection, these lymphocytes multiply rapidly and produce a characteristic swelling of the lymph nodes.

   Synonyms: lymphatic node, lymph gland, lymphoglandula, lymphonodus

Related terms

• lymphonodular

Translations

filtrating oval bodies of the lymphatic system

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: عُقْدَة لِمْفَاوِيَّة‎ f (ʿuqda limfāwiyya) Armenian: ավշային հանգույց (hy) (avšayin hanguycʿ), ավշահանգույց (hy) (avšahanguycʿ) Bashkir: биҙ (bið) Basque: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 淋巴結／淋巴结 (zh) (línbā jié) Czech: lymfatická uzlina f Esperanto: limfganglio Faroese: eitil m Finnish: imusolmuke (fi), lymphonodi French: ganglion lymphatique (fr) m, nœud lymphatique (fr) m Galician: ganglio linfático m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Lymphknoten (de) m pl, Lymphsystem (de) n Hebrew: קשר לימפה‎ m (késher límfa), בלוטת לימפה‎ f (balutát límfa) Hindi: लसीका पर्व m (lasīkā parv) Hungarian: nyirokcsomó (hu) Icelandic: eitill (is) m Irish: nód limfe m, faireog limfe f Italian: linfonodo (it) m Japanese: リンパ節 (リンパせつ, rinpasetsu) Khmer: កូនកណ្តុរ (konkântŏr) Korean: 림프절 (rimpeujeol) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: lîmfegirê (ku) f Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: лимфна жлезда f (limfna žlezda) Maori: tīpona waitinana Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Navajo: akááz Ojibwe: (my lymph node) niniishk Portuguese: linfonodo m, gânglio linfático m Russian: лимфати́ческий у́зел (ru) m (limfatíčeskij úzel), лимфоу́зел (ru) (limfoúzel) Spanish: ganglio linfático (es) m Swedish: lymfknuta (sv) c, lymfkörtel (sv) c Tagalog: kulani Thai: ต่อมน้ำเหลือง (th) (dtɔ̀m-nám-lʉ̌ʉang) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: lenf düğümü Vietnamese: hạch bạch huyết, hạch lympho

References

• “lymph node”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “lymph node”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• "lymph node" in On-line Medical Dictionary, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997–2005.

Anagrams

• endolymph