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English Dictionary: Exudation by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
exudation
n
  1. a substance that oozes out from plant pores [syn: exudate, exudation]
  2. the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes
    Synonym(s): exudation, transudation
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.
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