Hypertext Webster Gateway: "exudation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Exudation \Ex`u*da"tion\, n.
The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors,
moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also,
the substance exuded.
Resins, a class of proximate principles, existing in
almost all plants and appearing on the external surface
of many of them in the form of exudations. --Am. Cyc.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
exudation
n : the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from
blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell
membranes [syn: {transudation}]
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