Definition of Effusion

1. Noun. An unrestrained expression of emotion.

Exact synonyms: Blowup, Ebullition, Gush, Outburst
Generic synonyms: Expression, Manifestation, Reflection, Reflexion
Specialized synonyms: Acting Out, Cry, Explosion, Flare
Derivative terms: Blow Up, Effuse, Gush, Gushy

2. Noun. Flow under pressure.
Generic synonyms: Flood, Outpouring, Overflow
Derivative terms: Effuse

Definition of Effusion

1. n. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like.

Definition of Effusion

1. Noun. an outpouring of liquid ¹

2. Noun. (context: by extension) an outpouring of speech or emotion ¹

3. Noun. (medicine) the seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Effusion

1. an outpouring of emotion [n -S]

Medical Definition of Effusion

1. The escape of fluid into a part or tissue, as an exudation or a transudation. Origin: L. Effusio = a pouring out This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Effusion

effumability
effume
effumed
effumes
effuming
effund
effunded
effunding
effunds
effuse
effused
effuses
effusing
effusiometer
effusiometers
effusion (current term)
effusions
effusive
effusively
effusiveness
effusivenesses
eflornithine
eflornithine hydrochloride
eformoterol
efreet
efreets
efremovite
efs
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Literary usage of Effusion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"In a right-sided effusion, other things being equal, the paravertebral triangle has seemed to me more marked. Although symptomatology abounds in methods for ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1893)
"This is bad practice in many cases of serous effusion, and in all cases where ... It is said to be a fact that in some cases such an effusion, if left to ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1841)
"On the Circumstances which govern Local Inflammation, the effusion of Coagulable. Lymph, and the formation of Pits, as the Sequela: of Disease, Accidents, ..."

4. The Lancet (1898)
"21st, 1896, which illustrated the common causation of the effusion from rheumatism, valvular disease, and albuminuria. The conclusions arrived at related ..."

5. Pediatrics: The Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Children by Thomas Morgan Rotch (1895)
"Where the effusion is sufficiently large to displace other organs, such as the liver and the spleen, the presence of the effusion is so evident from the ..."

6. Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris by Armand Trousseau, Pierre Victor Bazire, John Rose Cormack (1870)
"TRAUMATIC effusion OF BLOOD INTO THE PLEURA:— PARACENTESIS OF THE CHEST. effusion of Blood into the Cavity of the Pleura mechanically arrests Traumatic ..."

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