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Definition of Effusion
1. Noun. An unrestrained expression of emotion.
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.
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
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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