ichor
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
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Pathology. an acrid, watery discharge, as from an ulcer or wound.
noun
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Greek myth the fluid said to flow in the veins of the gods
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pathol a foul-smelling watery discharge from a wound or ulcer
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Origin of ichor
1630–40; < Late Latin īchōr (in medical sense) < Greek īchṓr
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To the horror of everyone who looked on, he lowered himself into the bath of oil, drenching his clothes in sacred ichor, and fumbled around, feeling for the saint’s head.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024
Weirdness has its own conventions; horror makes much of ichor and tentacles, of slithering and maws in the wrong places.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
The word was coined from Greek petros, meaning "stone", and ichor, meaning "the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods"
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2018
The Internet's Achilles heel, blockchain or monolith, has always been electricity, the very ichor that produces its phenomenal strength.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2018
He ran to his master’s side, his saber-toothed fangs dripping with golden ichor.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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