bodily fluid vs ichor

ichor vs bodily fluid

bodily fluid and ichor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bodily fluid	Yes	No	No	No
ichor	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ichor is a hyponym of bodily fluid; that is, ichor is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bodily fluid:

bodily fluid: the liquid parts of the body
ichor: a fluid product of inflammation

Other hyponyms of bodily fluid include aqueous humor, aqueous humour, vitreous body, vitreous humor, vitreous humour, endolymph, perilymph, ECF, extracellular fluid, intracellular fluid, juice, succus, karyolymph, milk, amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, waters, blood, blood serum, serum, chyle, lymph, come, cum, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid, ink, secretion, black bile, melancholy, choler, yellow bile, lochia, festering, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration, cerebrospinal fluid, spinal fluid.

bodily fluid (noun)	ichor (noun)
the liquid parts of the body	a fluid product of inflammation
	(Greek mythology) the rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods

Difference between bodily fluid and ichor

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