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Webster 1913 Edition


Exudation

Exˊu-da′tion

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Noun.
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
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Am. Cyc.

Definition 2024


exudation

exudation

English

Noun

exudation (plural exudations)

  1. The act or process of exuding.
    • 1943, “Out of the Fire,” Time, 16 August, 1943,
      In severe burns, the body loses large amounts of nitrogen, in the urine and by exudation from the burned body surface.
  2. Something that is exuded.
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 7,
      The car was parked in close to the rustic fence, under the lime trees, and their sticky exudations had already stippled the windscreen.

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