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Exudation   Listen
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Exudation  n.  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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"Exudation" Quotes from Famous Books



... returned so thirsty that all the old stories about travellers suffering in waterless deserts returned to memory with new significance;—visions of simooms arose before me. What a delight to see and to grasp the heavy, red, thick-lipped dobanne, the water-jar, dewy and cool with the exudation of the Eau-de-Gouyave which filled it to the brim,—toutt vivant, as Cyrillia says, "all alive"! There was a sudden scream,—the water-pitcher was snatched from my hands by Cyrillia with the question: "Ess ou l tchou c-ou?—Saint ...
— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn

... the consideration of the world and then came hasheesh, which is from the Indian hemp. It is manufactured from the flowers at the top. The workman with leathern apparel walks through the field and the exudation of the plants adheres to the leathern garments, and then the man comes out and scrapes off this exudation, and it is mixed with aromatics and becomes an intoxicant that has brutalized whole nations. Its first effect is sight, spectacle ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

... state of decomposition, producing an infection of the blood, technically termed septicaemia. The fatal results which so suddenly follow child-bed fever are thus produced. This kind of poisoning sometimes takes place from the absorption of decomposed exudation in diphtheria, and, though rarely, from decomposing organic products collected in the lungs. Whenever the absorption of poison does take place, ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce



Words linked to "Exudation" :   oozing, seepage, transudation, gum, discharge



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