Meaning & use
Ichorous
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Resembling or discharging a thin, watery, often foul-smelling fluid, especially from a wound or sore.
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The surgeon noted an ichorous discharge seeping from the infected wound.
In Greek myth, the gods were said to bleed an ichorous fluid instead of blood.
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Derives from "ichor," the fluid said to flow in the veins of the Greek gods instead of blood; in medicine it describes a thin, watery wound discharge.
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