buffy coat /ˈbəfɪ-/ 名詞
 血沉棕黃層
 Buff n.
 1. A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner. “A suit of buff.”
 2. The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
 A visage rough,
 Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff.   --Dryden.
 3. A military coat, made of buff leather.
 4. Med. The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
 5. Mech. A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
 6. The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff. [Colloq.]
    To be in buff is equivalent to being naked.   --Wright.
 Buff·y a. Med. Resembling, or characterized by, buff.
 Buffy coat, the coagulated plasma of blood when the red corpuscles have so settled out that the coagulum appears nearly colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual.
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 In·flam·ma·to·ry a.
 1. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
 2. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.
 3. Med. Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.
 Inflammatory crust. Med. Same as Buffy coat, under Buffy.
 Inflammatory fever, a variety of fever due to inflammation.
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