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Exudation

noun
1.
A substance that oozes out from plant pores.  Synonym: exudate.
2.
The process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes.  Synonym: transudation.






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"Exudation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the next few days a new symptom was added to this group: Exudation, which was demonstrable both by palpation and percussion. It was the natural consequence of inflammation of the peritoneum, and was both of diagnostic value as indicating general peritonitis and of special value in that, more definitely than the pain, it pointed to the original seat of ...
— Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment • John H. Tilden, M.D.

... the United States, for skin eruptions, such as eczema. Eczema; inflammatory skin disease, indicated by redness and itching, eruption of small vesicles, and discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts;—called also tetter, ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... found on plants, deposited there by the aphis or plant-louse. It was supposed to be the food of fairies. Not improbably Coleridge was thinking of manna, a saccharine exudation found upon certain plants in the East. Mandeville describes it as found in "the Land of Job:" "This Manna is clept Bread of Angels. And it is a white Thing that is full sweet and right delicious, and more ...
— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Words linked to "Exudation" :   emission, transudation, gum, exude, seepage, ooze, oozing, latex, discharge



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