Definition of Transudation

1. Noun. A substance that transudes.

Exact synonyms: Transudate
Generic synonyms: Discharge, Emission

2. Noun. The process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes.
Exact synonyms: Exudation
Generic synonyms: Ooze, Oozing, Seepage
Derivative terms: Exude, Transude

Definition of Transudation

1. n. The act or process of transuding.

Definition of Transudation

1. Noun. the process of passing through a membrane, pore or interstice ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transudation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Transudation

1. 1. Passage of a fluid or solute through a membrane by a hydrostatic or osmotic pressure gradient. Synonym: transudate. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transudation

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transthyretin
transthyretins
transtigritane
transubstantial
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transubstantiated
transubstantiates
transubstantiating
transubstantiation
transubstantiations
transubstantiator
transubstantiators
transudate
transudates
transudation (current term)
transudations
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transudes
transuding
transulfurase
transume
transumed
transumes
transuming
transumpt
transumption
transumptive

Literary usage of Transudation

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

1. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1868)
"The act of transudation is physical, that is, it has no special relation ... In a true transudation, however, there is no solution of continuity or rupture. ..."

2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"This process we speak of as transudation. What can we say as to its nature ? ... May we speak of the process of transudation as a simple process of ..."

3. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1889)
"But here too the increased transudation may be regarded as simply the result of the greater fulness of the blood vessels. § 302. The passage of material, ..."

4. Physiological Chemistry by Karl Gotthelf Lehmann (1855)
"Schmidt assumes, that the transudation from every group of capillaries contains a ... He found the transudation in the pleura to be richest in albumen ..."

5. General Pathology and Principles of Medicine for Students and Practitioners by Vernon Cecil Rowland (1921)
"Excessive transudation leads to an accumulation of fluid in the ... The Nature of transudation.—The exact nature of transudation is not very well understood ..."

6. A Manual of pathology by Joseph Coats (1883)
"Here there is increased pressure in the capillaries and veins, and a greatly increased transudation. From what has gone before, it will appear probable that ..."

7. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1875)
"... will increase the amount of transudation, producing an œdematous condition of the part, I which is first perceptible in the loose connective tissue, ..."

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