extravasate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Pathology. to force out from the proper vessels, as blood, especially so as to diffuse through the surrounding tissues.
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Geology. to pour forth, as lava, from a subterranean source in a molten state.
verb (used without object)
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Pathology. to be extravasated, as blood.
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Geology. to pour forth lava or the like.
noun
verb
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pathol to cause (blood or lymph) to escape or (of blood or lymph) to escape into the surrounding tissues from their proper vessels
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to exude (molten material, such as lava) or (of molten material) to be exuded
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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
Terminations of Contusions.—The usual termination is a complete return to the normal, some of the extravasated blood being organised, but most of it being reabsorbed.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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
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 Charles Gabriel Le Clerc
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 Alexis Thomson
It had, however, broad maculations of bluish-black, obviously caused by extravasated blood from contusions.
From The Damned Thing 1898, From "In the Midst of Life" by Ambrose Bierce
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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