extravasate

American  

[ik-strav-uh-seyt] / 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

Etymology

Origin of extravasate

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

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

They gather round it, at first with a certain amount of constraint, confining themselves to lapping the extravasated liquor.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

A blood cyst or hæmatoma results from the encapsulation of extravasated blood in the tissues, from hæmorrhage taking place into a preformed cyst, or from the saccular pouching of a varicose vein.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

No, because the Blood that forms the Aneurisms and Varices is not extravasated nor accompany'd with Inflammation, but only a Tumour of Blood proceeding from the Dilatation of the Arteries and Veins.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

This extravasated matter has spread over wide fields, deluging the surrounding country like a tide in a bay, and overflowing all inequalities.

From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Hull, Edward

Where 302 the pium fly feeds it leaves a dot of extravasated blood which remains for weeks, so that most of us were speckled.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

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