exudation

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She tours their anatomy, reproduction and more, delivering a hail of facts with brio and precision — whether about the fungal gardens of leafcutter ants or the lac-bug exudations that, processed into shellac, coat violins.

From Nature • May 13, 2019

A certain courageous soldier had knelt before the Sovereign to be knighted, but His Majesty, although not squeamish, recoiled at the kneeling man's terrific exudations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frankly, I find this dabbling in one's secretions, excretions or exudations in the name of self-knowledge and dignity unproductive and unnecessary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Remarks: The exudations from this species are used as chewing gum.

From Wood and Forest by Noyes, William

The serous exudations of the skin are those present in vesicles, blisters, or bull�, which owe their limitation to the resistance offered to the spreading of the liquid inflammatory product by the coherent epidermis.

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