exudate /ex·u·date/ (eks´u-dāt) a fluid with a high content of protein and cellular debris which has escaped from blood vessels and has been deposited in tissues or on tissue surfaces, usually as a result of inflammation.
Exudate
exudate
exudate (eks´ōōdāt),
exudate
ex·u·date ( ks y -d t )n. A fluid that has exuded out of a tissue or its capillaries due to injury or inflammation. |
Exudate
The type of pleural effusion that results from inflammation or other disease of the pleura itself. It features cloudy fluid containing cells and proteins.
exudate
[eks′yoo͡dāt]
Etymology: L, exsudare, to sweat out
fluid, cells, or other substances that have been slowly exuded, or discharged, from cells or blood vessels through small pores or breaks in cell membranes. Perspiration, pus, and serum are sometimes identified as exudates.
exudate (eks´ōōdāt),
n the outpouring of a fluid substance, such as exudated suppuration or tissue fluid.
exudate, purulent
(eks´ōōdāt pyūr´
lnt),
n pus or suppuration that exudes from the gingival tissues and contains a mixture of enzymes, dead tissue, bacteria, and leukocytes, primarily neutrophils.
lnt), n pus or suppuration that exudes from the gingival tissues and contains a mixture of enzymes, dead tissue, bacteria, and leukocytes, primarily neutrophils.
exudates, gingival,
n the outpouring of an inflammatory exudate from the gingival tissues.
exudate
a fluid with a high content of protein and cellular debris which has escaped from blood vessels and has been deposited in tissues or on tissue surfaces, usually as a result of inflammation. It may be septic or nonseptic. See also exudative.
exudate
A liquid or semisolid which has been discharged through the tissues to the surface or into a cavity. Exudates in the retina are opacities that result from the escape of plasma and white blood cells from defective blood vessels. They usually look greyish-white or yellowish and are circular or ovoid in shape. They are sometimes classified into three groups according to size: (1) punctate hard exudates, which often tend to coalesce. They are found in diabetic retinopathy, Coats' disease, etc.; (2) exudates of moderate size, such as 'cotton-wool or soft exudates' as, for example, in branch/central retinal vein occlusion, hypertensive retinopathy, etc. These 'exudates' have ill-defined margins and are actually areas of ischaemia containing cytoid bodies, unlike hard exudates which are generally lipid deposits; (3) larger exudates, as found in the severe forms of retinopathy.
exudate
Internal medicine A cell and protein-rich fluid that extravasates from the capillaries. See Hard exudate, Pleural exudate, Waxy exudate.
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