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exudation
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "process of oozing out;" 1620s, "that which is exuded," from Late Latin exudationem / exsudationem , noun of action from neuter past participle of exudere / exsudere "to ooze, exude" (see exude ). Related: Exudate (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of exude 2 something that is exuded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exudation \Ex`u*da"tion\, n. 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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a substance that oozes out from animal or plant pores [syn: exudate ] the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes [syn: transudation ]
Usage examples of exudation.
It is formed of a coagulable, semi-fluid exudation from the mucous membrane.
The cloth was so drenched in the exudations of the sackmaker that it had absorbed them like an enfleurage paste and could be directly subjected to lavage.
Formerly there was much theorizing and discussion regarding the etiology and pathology of plica, but since this mysterious affection has been proved to be nothing more than the product of neglect, and the matting due to the inflammatory exudation, excited by innumerable pediculi, agglutinating the hair together, the term is now scarcely mentioned in dermatologic works.
Nor has the microscope discovered in the demented any exudation or addition to the stroma of the brain, or any change in size, shape, or proportional number of its cells.
The sole was a ragged, sodden mass with a stinking exudation oozing from the underrun horn, but what really bewildered me was the series of growths sprouting from every crevice.
At its focus, comfortably disposed on large and well-smoothed crotches, were three persons of advancing age whose exudations indicated they were far from happy to be in such proximity.
Mists rose from it, and an exudation of heat and above all, a tantalizing odor that pleasantly tickled his nostrils.
In addition, the whole social life of the area was in her hands, not only graduation exercises, but dances, meetings, debates, chorals, Christmas and May Day festivals, patriotic exudations on Decoration Day and the Fourth of July.
They were so low that it seemed the bull might grab a wingtip with his reaching trunk, and Craig could clearly make out the wet exudation from the glands behind his eyes.
They cleaned the broken wound of its exudations with a lotion of woundwort and sanicle, and dressed it with a paste of the same herbs with betony and the chickweed wintergreen, covered it with clean linen, and swathed the patients wasted trunk with bandages to keep the dressing in place.
An exudation - a spewing out like pus from a boil - from the lower levels of Madmanse, down its ramps and through its gantlets, into the scree and rubble of the bottoms.
Cistus Creticus, or European Rock Rose, the only other plant of the order used in medicine, yields the gum resin Ladanum or Labdanum, a natural exudation valued as a stimulant expectorant and emmenagogue.
Might there not be some poisonous exudation from this new-fangled nuclear propulsion?