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Definition of Exudation

1. Noun. A substance that oozes out from plant pores.

2. Noun. The process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes.

Definition of Exudation

1. n. The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded.

Definition of Exudation

1. Noun. the act of exuding ¹

2. Noun. something that is exuded ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exudation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Exudation

1. The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded. "Resins, a class of proximate principles, existing in almost all plants and appearing on the external surface of many of them in the form of exudations." (Am. Cyc) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exudation

extumescence extumescences exuberance exuberances exuberancy exuberant exuberantly exuberate exuberated exuberates

exuberating exuccous exudate exudate cell exudates exudation (current term) exudation cell exudation corpuscle exudation cyst exudations

exudative exudative angina exudative bronchiolitis exudative choroiditis exudative glomerulonephritis exudative inflammation exudative retinal detachment exudative retinitis exudative tuberculosis

Literary usage of Exudation

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

1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1881)
"Inoculated with lung-exudation. October 14. — Fed with morbid tissues. ... Inoculated with lung-exudation. August 4. — Death from over-exertion in hot ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1873)
"Considerable pus in ventricles ; purulent exudation over entire surface of cerebrum and cerebellum ; pus over posterior columns the entire length of cord, ..."

3. The Rôle of Diffusion and Osmotic Pressure in Plants by Burton Edward Livingston (1903)
"That exudation pressure depends upon vital activity seems evident from the fact that it ceases with death. Another line of evidence which points toward the ..."

4. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"The Mechanism of Active exudation. An active exudation of water is only ... To produce an exudation-pressure it is not necessary that the active cells must ..."

5. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen, Marcus Beck (1884)
"These are subdivided into: (a) exudation-cysts; and (6) Retention-cysts, ... A form of exudation-cyst is sometimes met with in connection with serous and ..."

6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1884)
"In one of these cases the interesting discovery was made of an abundance of micrococci in the exudation, as well as in the deeper ..."

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