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.

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It also increases the exudation of mucus from neighboring membranes.

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The germ induces in the lungs, in lobar pneumonia especially, a copious exudation of protective serum.

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The liquid portion of the exudation represents something more than the transuded blood-serum, and a certain practical importance results from the distinction drawn between an exudation and a transudation.

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