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The three main stars put in some serous hours to prepare.—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024 The heart gets not one but two bags: a tough outer fibrous pericardium and a serous pericardium, protecting the heart and fixing it firmly in place in our constantly moving thorax.—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Dec. 2023 Her case was complicated by a serous choroidal detachment, an abnormal accumulation of fluid, which ultimately led to vision loss in the left eye.—Janelle Chavez, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023 A year after his fall, Graham was diagnosed with endometrial serous carcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of uterine cancer.—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2023 Exudative or serous retinal detachment (SRD) is rare type of retinal detachment, which occurs when fluid accumulates under your retina and pushes it away from the blood vessels.—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
Word History
Etymology
Middle English cerose, serose, serous, borrowed from Medieval Latin serōsus, from Latin serum "whey, wheylike fluid" + -ōsus-ous — more at serum entry 1
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