exudation

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In severe burns, the body loses large amounts of nitrogen, in the urine and by exudation from the burned body surface.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes infection inflames the lining of a pleural cavity, causes an exudation which fills the cavity and leaves no space for the lung to expand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why else did an atramental cloud of controversy settle over the struggle, political cuttlefish and squid belch their inky exudation over the contest?

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It also increases the exudation of mucus from neighboring membranes.

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The purulent variety of inflammation is present when the exudation is abundantly cellular.

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