serous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: se=rous

CIDE DICTIONARY

serous, a. [Cf. F. séreux. See Serum.].

 Thin; watery; like serum; as, the serous fluids.  [1913 Webster]

Serous membrane. (Anat.) See under Membrane.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

serous, adj. of or like or producing serum; watery.

Idiom

serous gland (or membrane) a gland or membrane with a serous secretion.

Derivative

serosity n.

Etymology

F s{eacute}reux or med.L serosus (as SERUM)

THESAURUS

serous

bloody, chylifactive, chylifactory, chylific, excretory, humoral, ichorous, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, phlegmy, purulent, pussy, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous, sanious, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, sialagogic, spermatic, suppurated, suppurating, suppurative, tearlike, watering, watery

ROGET THESAURUS

serous

Fluidity

N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.