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• aqueous humor, aqueous humour go
  the limpid fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens
  
• vitreous humor, vitreous humour, vitreous body go
  the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball
  
• endolymph go
  the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear
  
• perilymph go
  the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear
  
• extracellular fluid, ECF go
  liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid
  
• intracellular fluid go
  liquid contained inside the cell membranes (usually containing dissolved solutes)
  
• juice, succus go
  any of several liquids of the body
  
• karyolymph go
  a clear liquid in the cell nucleus in which the nucleolus and chromatin and other structures are dispersed
  
• milk go
  produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
  
• amniotic fluid, amnionic fluid, waters go
  the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion
  
• blood go
  the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets
  
• serum, blood serum go
  an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates
  
• chyle go
  a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats
  
• lymph go
  a thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle
  
• semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come go
  the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
  
• ink go
  dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods
  
• secretion go
  a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell
  
• black bile, melancholy go
  a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
  
• yellow bile, choler go
  a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger
  
• lochia go
  substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth
  
• pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering go
  a fluid product of inflammation
  
• spinal fluid, cerebrospinal fluid go
  clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain