exudate

Etymology

exude + -ate

noun

  1. A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
    The whitish lines of exudate seem at times to penetrate even between the straight tubes . . . 1861, Stephen Jennings Goodfellow, Lectures on the Diseases of the Kidney, Generally Known as Brights Disease, and Dropsy
    When this is done, one should leave the poppy for some time, then return to it and gather any further exudate. 2005, Selma Tibi, The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-century Baghdad

verb

  1. (obsolete) To exude.

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