Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The effusion of an animal fluid into the tissues surrounding its proper vessel, from which it has escaped in consequence of rupture or morbid permeability: as, extravasation of blood or of urine.
- noun In geology, the protrusion of molten lava, either primarily from interior reservoirs, or locally from the interior of an uncongealed flow, through cracks in its hardened crust.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion.
- noun (Geol.) The issue of lava and other volcanic products from the earth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
exudation ofblood ,lymph orurine from avessel into thetissues . - noun The
eruption ofmolten lava from avolcanic vent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation
- noun (of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)
- noun the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine
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Examples
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Through extravasation, that is, through fluid infiltration of tissues, these Passengers come to be one with us, and we make them part of our tissue; but some of the Passengers are the demolishers of the living temple.
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Adzick NS, Harrison MR, Flake AW, deLorimier AA: Urinary extravasation in the fetus with obstructive uropathy.
Obstructive Uropathy, Fetal Intervention for Obstructive Uropathy 2010
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This dependent edema is produced by the extravasation of fluid from the blood vessels.
The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means Danner, Mark 2009
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The massacre is one of the worst civil extravasation in EU-candidate Turkey´s modern history.
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“The subject also had extravasation of red blood cells on tissues around his jaw and ribs.”
The Tenth Circle Jodi Picoult 2006
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It is quite likely that the extravasation fills the whole brain, in which case he will die in the imbecile state in which he is lying now.
Father Goriot 2003
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In some cases where infection of this extravasation of blood and serum occurs, instead of desiccation and discoloration of the insensitive parts, there is, in time, manifested a circumscribed area of destruction of the insensitive sole and the abscess may, where no provision for drainage exists, burrow between sensitive and insensitive laminae and perforate the tissues at the coronet.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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If the injury be of sufficient extent, considerable extravasation of blood will take place and the painfully swollen parts necessarily impair locomotion.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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-- If the parts can be examined before extravasation of blood and swelling mask the condition, crepitation may be detected.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Naturally, when much extravasation of serum and blood takes place, there is occasioned a fluctuating swelling which is usually less painful to the subject upon manipulation than is a dense inflammatory change without marked extravasation.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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