exudation

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

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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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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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The properties of the effusion and exudation are quite different, the former having a small percentage of albumen, but few leucocytes, with a corresponding absence of fibrin, and few or many red blood-corpuscles.

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