interstitial fluid, an extracellular fluid that fills the spaces between most of the cells of the body and provides a substantial portion of the liquid environment of the body. Formed by filtration through the blood capillaries, it is drained away as lymph.ee nephritis. interstitial fluid pressure. pressure exerted by the free interstitial fluid; if the pressure is negative this tends to suck fluid out of the vascular system and into the tissue space; if the pressure is greater than the intravascular pressure fluid tends to move out of the tissue space.
carpetbagger - an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south. opportunist, self-seeker - a person who places expediency above principle.
Northerners who moved south during Reconstruction were called carpetbaggers. They moved because the South was a new pioneer society and it was a place of opportunity.