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.
Cartoon suggesting President Rutherford B. Hayes supported removal of carpetbaggers from the Southern States during Reconstruction (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1877.) In United States history, carpetbaggers were Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to take up new business, reform or political opportunities. More generally the term refers to the political faction of the Republican Party in the South controlled by the new arrivals.