serosity

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare French sérosité. See serous.

Noun[edit]

serosity (countable and uncountable, plural serosities)

  1. The quality or state of being serous.
  2. (biology) A thin watery animal fluid, such as synovial fluid or pericardial fluid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for serosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)