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extravasate

[ik-strav-uh-sayt] / ɪkˈstræv əˌseɪt /


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BDCs, by contrast, rapidly extravasate with high volumes of distribution after parenteral dosing, quickly binding to cell surface tumor antigens and internalizing, and any unbound BDC is quickly cleared by the kidney within minutes. 

From Forbes ● Oct. 14, 2014

Its gravity does not depend so much upon the amount of blood extravasated as it does upon the disturbance or diminished action of the vasomotor centers.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

If the patient outlives these more mechanical results of embolism, the local changes taking place are those tending to remove the extravasated blood or the dead tissues.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

If the sheath of the vessel is not widely damaged, the gradually increasing tension of the extravasated blood retained within it may ultimately arrest the hæmorrhage.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

Diseases attended with vitiated or extravasated fluids; as emphysema, œdema, inflammation, abscess, and gangrene.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

They gather round it, at first with a certain amount of constraint, confining themselves to lapping the extravasated liquor.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall

Extravasā′tion, act of extravasating: the escape of any of the fluids of the living body from their proper vessels through a rupture in their walls.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various


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