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noun

Extravasation n.

The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

(Geol.) The issue of lava and other volcanic products from the earth.

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Etymology of 'Extravasation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Extravasation" Quotes from Famous Books

... about two gallons of unwholesome liquids, and eaten a pound or two of unwholesome solids. These medicines have co-operated with the malady. The disorder lies, not in the hemorrhage, but in the precedent extravasation that is a drain on the system; and how is the loss to be supplied? Why, by taking a little more nourishment than before; there is no other way; and probably Nature, left to herself, might have increased your appetite to meet the occasion. But ...

— A Simpleton • Charles Reade

... is sometimes acute, is marked by furious delirium, and terminates fatally in the course of a few days, and sometimes a few hours. At other times it assumes a chronic form, continues much longer, and then frequently results in an effusion of serum, or an extravasation of blood, and the patient dies in a state of insensibility, with all the symptoms of compressed brain. Sometimes the system becomes so saturated with ardent spirit, that there is good reason to believe the effusions, which take place in the cavities ...

— Select Temperance Tracts • American Tract Society

Words linked to "Extravasation" : extravasate, vent, activity, biological process, volcano, liquid, organic process, blood extravasation, eructation, urocele