exudate

exudate

English

Etymology

exude +‎ -ate

Noun

exudate (plural exudates)

1. A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
   • 1861 Stephen Jennings Goodfellow - Lectures on the Diseases of the Kidney, Generally Known as Brights Disease, and Dropsy

     The whitish lines of exudate seem at times to penetrate even between the straight tubes . . .

   • 2005 Selma Tibi - The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-century Baghdad

     When this is done, one should leave the poppy for some time, then return to it and gather any further exudate.

Translations

a fluid that has exuded from somewhere

Finnish: tulehdusneste, eksudaatti

Russian: экссуда́т (ru) m (ekssudát)

Verb

exudate (third-person singular simple present exudates, present participle exudating, simple past and past participle exudated)

1. (obsolete) To exude.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)