Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
exudation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Exudation.
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- noun Alternative form of
exudation .
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Examples
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The milky exsudation from the sudu-sudu (Euphorbia neriifolia) is valued highly by the natives for medicinal purposes.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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When this reservoir of petroleum was cut into, the slowness of its exsudation into the canal was not only owing to its viscidity, but to the pressure of the atmosphere, or to the necessity there was that air should at the same time insinuate itself into the small cavities from which the petroleum descended.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Secondly, the skin of the fetus is covered with a whitish crust or pellicle, which would seem to preclude any idea of the liquor amnii being produced by any exsudation of perspirable matter.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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In the same manner indigestion, with green evacuations, are said to follow an injudicious application of cerussa to stop too hastily the exsudation behind the ears of children, Class I. 1. 2. 9.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Of the gummous exsudation, or small transparent Pearls, discovered with a _Microscope_ in several others.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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