Exudation

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of exuding. countable, uncountable

    "In severe burns, the body loses large amounts of nitrogen, in the urine and by exudation from the burned body surface."

  2. 2
    the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that is exuded. countable, uncountable

    "Major Pendennis, having read with difficulty his nephew’s name under Mr. Warrington’s on the wall of No. 6, found still greater difficulty in climbing the abominable black stairs, up the banisters of which, which contributed their damp exudations to his gloves, he groped painfully until he came to the third story."

  4. 4
    a substance that oozes out from plant pores wordnet

Etymology

From exude + -ation.

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