a. Phys. [f. LYMPH + -OID.] Resembling lymph, lymph corpuscles or the tissue of lymphatic glands; occas. = LYMPHATIC.
1867. Quain’s Anat. (ed. 7), III. p. cxcix. This structure which prevails in the mucous membrane of the stomach, and intestines … is sometimes named lymphoid tissue from its resemblance to the interior tissue of the lymphatic glands.
1874. Q. Jrnl. Microscop. Sci., XIV. 279. Spherical or lymphoid cells, of which all intermediate sizes exist,… are seen in the lymph canalicular system.
1879. Reynolds, Syst. Med., V. 217. The tissue known … as ‘adenoid’ consists of lymphoid corpuscles embedded in the meshes of a ‘retiform’ stroma.
Also Lymphoidal a. (In recent Dicts.)
