MEANING
1. A thin, watery discharge from damaged tissue, sometimes tinged with blood.
2. In classical mythology, the substance said to flow in the veins of gods.
Use it for
Leaking abnormal tissue; unfamiliar bodily fluid; contrast between mortality and divinityLet an unusual fluid destabilize the reader's expectations of blood.
Words that belong together
- thin ichor
- blood-tinged ichor
- ichor seeping from a wound
On the page
Thin ichor seeped through the dressing.
The wound gave off ichor rather than bright blood.
In the damaged fresco, golden ichor marked the god's wound.
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Rare medical sense fits bodily decay; mythology also uses it for divine blood. Not simply a grand synonym for human blood or any thick slime. Usually uncountable in this sense; no routine plural.
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