MEANING
Watery and resembling serum, especially of bodily fluid.
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- serous fluid
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Serous fluid collected beneath the tissue.
The drainage remained serous.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more serous; superlative most serous where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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