What is "effusions"

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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.