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effusion
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Effusion \Ef*fu"sion\, n. [L. effusio: cf. F. effusion.] The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. --Dryden. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "a pouring out," from Middle French effusion (14c.) and directly from Latin effusionem (nominative effusio ) "a pouring forth," noun of action from past participle stem of effundere "pour forth, spread abroad; to lavish, squander, waste," from ex- ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a liquid outpouring. 2 (context by extension English) a speech or emotion outpouring. 3 (context medicine English) the seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Effusion can refer to: (Chemistry) Effusion , the process of gases passing through a small hole (Medicine), the seeping of fluid into a body cavity; also the fluid itself; an abnormal collection of fluid in a body cavity or space, such as pleural effusion ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an unrestrained expression of emotion [syn: gush , outburst , blowup , ebullition ] flow under pressure
Usage examples of effusion.
Leipzig effusions it was love, and love in a sufficiently Anacreontic sense.
Then you being well tipled, and deceived by the obscurity of the night, drew out your sword courageously like furious Ajax, and kild not as he did, whole heard of beastes, but three blowne skinnes, to the intent that I, after the slaughter of so many enemies, without effusion of bloud might embrace and kisse, not an homicide but an Utricide.
Still, I believe if one half of the family meetings that make hearts to throb daily could lay bare the motives and impressions that underlie the effusion, there would not be half the attendant enthusiasm that characterises them now--as even the neediest of relatives might object to being regarded in the light of means to an end.
Inflammation gives rise to effusion, or the formation of a kind of cement which binds together the muscular fibers and prevents motion.
I have often seen such cases, and I know by experience that the effusion of blood or its absence proves nothing.
His Slavophil and reactionary effusions are rather second-rate, but some of the elegies, written in a state of dejection during his sufferings, have genuine human feeling in them without losing any of his verbal splendor.
Though he was much weakened by the effusion of blood, before this attempt was discovered, yet, as the instrument had missed the artery, he did not expire until he was carried to the gibbet, and underwent the sentence of the law.
From the watery condition of the blood, there resulted various serous effusions into the pericardium, ventricles of the brain, and into the abdomen.
From the watery condition of the blood there resulted various serous effusions into the pericardium, into the ventricles of the brain, and into the abdominal cavity.
The impoverished condition of the blood, which led to serous effusions within the ventricles of the brain, and around the brain and spinal cord, and into the pericardial and abdominal cavities, was gradually induced by the action of several causes, but chiefly by the character of the food.
Of the other young men of the village Gifted Hopkins was perhaps the most fervent of her admirers, as he had repeatedly shown by effusions in verse, of which, under the thinnest of disguises, she was the object.
His poetical effusions are equally creditable to his head and his heart, displaying the highest order of genius and powers of imagination and fancy hardly second to any writer of the age.
Professor, that he was equally so in the rhythmic, and instanced several consoling false quantities in the few effusions submitted to him.
Are there any symptoms of the gelatinous character of the effusions of the Lakers in the compositions of Homer?
His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below the level than if they were so much stagnant water.