extravasate

American  

[ik-strav-uh-sayt] / ɪkˈstræv əˌseɪt /

verb (used with object)

extravasated, extravasating

1. Pathology. to force out from the proper vessels, as blood, especially so as to diffuse through the surrounding tissues.

2. Geology. to pour forth, as lava, from a subterranean source in a molten state.

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verb (used without object)

extravasated, extravasating

1. Pathology. to be extravasated, as blood.

2. Geology. to pour forth lava or the like.

noun

1. Pathology. the extravasated material; extravasation.

extravasate British  

/ ɪkˈstrævəˌseɪt /

verb

1. pathol to cause (blood or lymph) to escape or (of blood or lymph) to escape into the surrounding tissues from their proper vessels

2. to exude (molten material, such as lava) or (of molten material) to be exuded

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noun

1. pathol the material extravasated

Other Word Forms

• unextravasated
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of extravasate

First recorded in 1655–65; extra- + vas + -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

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extravasate extravasated extravasating

BDCs, by contrast, rapidly extravasate with high volumes of distribution after parenteral dosing, quickly binding to cell surface tumor antigens and internalizing, and any unbound BDC is quickly cleared by the kidney within minutes. 

From Forbes ● Oct. 14, 2014

In the sea-scurvy and petechial fever the veins do not perfectly perform this office of absorption; and hence the vibices are occasioned by blood stagnating at their extremities, or extravasated into the cellular membrane.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

To me it would be a great nuisance, unless in the case of much grease, of persistent bleeding, or clots of extravasated blood occurring.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Montagu Browne

In this cellular Membrane the extravasated Waters of hydropic Patients are commonly diffused; and here they give Way to that Motion, to which their own Weight disposes them.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

A small bandage fastened the dressings of the wound, around which a bluish circle of extravasated blood was gradually increasing in size.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas père

Its gravity does not depend so much upon the amount of blood extravasated as it does upon the disturbance or diminished action of the vasomotor centers.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

Extravasā′tion, act of extravasating: the escape of any of the fluids of the living body from their proper vessels through a rupture in their walls.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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