• Exudate

    Full definition of exudate

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

    Verb

    1. (obsolete) To exude.
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