transudation
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Exudation is more generally used when an inflammatory process is the cause of the increased transudation, while effusion is more strictly associated with causes other than inflammatory.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
During the acute attack, the vitreous may become slightly turbid by transudation of serum from the vessel of the ciliary body and the chorioid and may become filled with fibrin.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance
This is followed by the formation of a coating of coagulated fibrin on the diseased pleura and the transudation of serum which collects in the chest.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
The effusion is not so much due to exudation as to a transudation of serum with which micrococci are commingled.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The importance of these experiments with reference to the causes of the transudation of fluid from the blood is obvious.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various