Lexic.us

Definition of Extravasate

1. Verb. Force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel.

2. Verb. Become active and spew forth lava and rocks. "Vesuvius erupts once in a while"

3. Verb. Geology: cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth.

Definition of Extravasate

1. v. t. To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.

2. v. i. To pass by infiltration or effusion from the normal channel, such as a blood vessel or a lymphatic, into the surrounding tissue; -- said of blood, lymph, etc.

Definition of Extravasate

1. Adjective. Outside of a vessel. ¹

2. Noun. That which is outside a vessel (especially blood or other bodily fluids) ¹

3. Verb. To flow (or be forced) from a vessel ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extravasate

1. [v -SATED, -SATING, -SATES]

Medical Definition of Extravasate

1. To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood. Origin: Pref. Extra + L. Vas vessel: cf. F. Extravaser. See Vase. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extravasate

extravagancy extravagant extravagantly extravagantness extravaganza extravaganzas extravagate extravagated extravagates extravagating

extravagation extravagations extravagent extravasate (current term) extravasated extravasates extravasating extravasation extravasation cyst extravasations

extravascular extravascular fluid extravascular lung water extravastion extravehicular extravehicular activity extravenate extraventricular

Literary usage of Extravasate

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

1. General surgery by Eugen Fröhner (1906)
"places the extravasate and, similar to the so-called organization of a thrombus, ... When the connective-tissue mass does not displace the extravasate, ..."

2. Text-book of general and special pathology for students and practitioners by Henry Turner Brooks (1915)
"The extravasate accumulates between the bone and the periosteum, and detaches the latter. ... The extravasate remains fluid and is gradually absorbed; ..."

3. Medicinisch-chirurgische Rundschau (1862)
"Die enorm ausgedehnten und geschlängelten Venen und die extravasate erschienen nämlich blassrosa, die dünne Arterien hellorange und auch die hie und da ..."

4. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Karl Rokitansky (1854)
"... extravasate-fibrin, in the shape of central or peripheral (encysting) ... occur more especially in fibroid formations springing from extravasate-fibrin, ..."

5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1893)
"... or blood extravasate. Those underneath the epithelium (luckily few in number) are also irregular in shape and have ragged walls ; the tissues or cells ..."

6. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1892)
"... is owing to the yielding and resilient nature of the epithelium), and they are at many points more or less blocked up with exudate or blood extravasate. ..."

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