Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of oozing forth.
- noun An exudate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of exuding; an oozing or sweating out; a gradual discharge of humors or moisture.
- noun That which is exuded: as, gums are exudations from plants; serous exudations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
exuding - noun something that is exuded
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a substance that oozes out from plant pores
- noun the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes
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Examples
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[1] The term exudation is used to designate the passing of cells and fluid from the vessels in inflammation; the material is the exudate.
Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman
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Higher CO2 concentrations tend to intensify root exudation, which is the main source of available carbon for soil and rhizosphere bacteria.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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Higher CO2 concentrations tend to intensify root exudation, which is the main source of available carbon for soil and rhizosphere bacteria.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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All comes to pass in the blackest depths of the crowd, whose agglomeration, growing denser and denser, produces the temperature needful for this exudation, which is the privilege of the youngest bees.
The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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It is a mildly inflammatory disorder, somewhat similar to urticaria, and presumably due to vasomotor disturbance; the amount of exudation, which is variable, determines the character of the lesions.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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There are three stages of this disease; the inflammatory, accompanied by swelling, and the formation of pimples or vesicles; that of exudation, which is succeeded by incrustation; and that of desquamation, in which the skin separates in little scales and sometimes becomes thickened.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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The alimentary discharge becomes mixed with a sero-mucous exudation, which is followed by a certain amount of suppurative matter.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Let us now lift up, so far as we may, one of the folds of this garlanded curtain in the midst of which the swarm is beginning to produce that strange exudation which is almost as white as snow, and is lighter than the down on a bird's breast.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891
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There are two main flows of C substrates from plants: plant litter formation with lignocellulose as a main component resistant to microbial breakdown; and the continuous supply of readily available C monomers (root and foliage exudation).
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Examples are plant root respiration, the sloughing of dead material from roots, root exudation, and the growth and respiration of microorganisms intimately associated with plant roots.
chained_bear commented on the word exudation
"...All the way the blood dribbled from the corpse in a slow, incessant, sanguine exudation."
--George Alfred Townsend, quoted in James L. Swanson, Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, 347
May 30, 2008