exudate

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is definitely settled Should the moisture be due simply to the presence of the inflammatory exudate, then poulticing alone will have the desired effect, and the pain will be lessened.

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  1. noun A substance that has oozed forth.

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  • Among these is fever; restricted area of active lung tissue, from filling of portions of the lungs with inflammatory exudate, as in pneumonia; compression of the lungs or loss of elasticity; pain in the muscles controlling the respiratory movements; excess of carbon dioxid in the blood; and constriction of the air passages leading to the lungs Difficult or labored respiration is known as dyspnea. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • In this case a puslike exudate is found between the membranes covering the brain In cerebritis, or inflammation of the interior of the brain, there is a tendency to softening and suppuration and the formation of abscesses. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Between the second and fourth days this sound may disappear, due to a distension of the pericardium by an exudate or serous effusion. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • In a small number there is an abundant serous exudate, and with this there may be a considerable formation of fibrin, covering the surface of the membrane and floating in the fluid as flakes or masses; under the influence of movement it may assume the shape of melon-seed bodies. —  Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
  • These changes in the synovial membrane are often associated with an abundant exudate or hydrops. —  Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
 

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  1. Latin exsūdātum, neuter past participle of exsūdāre, to exude; see exude.

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  1. from Latin exudatus, exsudatus, past participle of exudare, exsudare, exude: see exude.
  2. Also exsudate; from Latin exudatum, exsudatum, neuter of exudatus, exsudatus, past participle: see exudate, v.
 

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