exudation

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Sometimes infection inflames the lining of a pleural cavity, causes an exudation which fills the cavity and leaves no space for the lung to expand.

From Time Magazine Archive

It also increases the exudation of mucus from neighboring membranes.

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The germ induces in the lungs, in lobar pneumonia especially, a copious exudation of protective serum.

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In severe burns, the body loses large amounts of nitrogen, in the urine and by exudation from the burned body surface.

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Patches of congestion and occasionally submucous ecchymoses may be observed, and croupous exudation occurs here somewhat more frequently than in the small intestine.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various