body fluid

[ bod-ee floo-id ]

noun

any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.

Origin of body fluid

First recorded in 1720–30

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

When left undisturbed in total darkness, the female mantises extrude a pronged structure inflated with body fluids, roughly the hue and luster of polished jade.
This praying mantis inflates a strange pheromone gland to lure mates | Jake Buehler | April 26, 2021 | Science News
“The balance of attention must be shifted to protecting against airborne transmission,” they said, because people are “far more likely” to breathe in floating virus than be sprayed by quickly falling droplets of contaminated body fluid.
CDC says airborne transmission plays a role in coronavirus spread in a long-awaited update after a website error last month | Lena H. Sun, Ben Guarino | October 5, 2020 | Washington Post
On his knees, fighting the waves of pain, he lost body fluid he vitally needed.
Planet of the Damned | Harry Harrison
In every muscle the connective tissue is loose enough to allow body fluid to penetrate among the muscle cells.
Physiology | Ernest G. Martin
Both the larv and adults of the monarch butterfly are distasteful to birds, by their possession of an acrid body-fluid.
Elementary Zoology, Second Edition | Vernon L. Kellogg

Is there any way we can get some of his body fluid away from him?
Star Surgeon | Alan Nourse
There was a slight spurt of body fluid as the chitinous armor was partly broken.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931 | Various

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