exudate
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English
Etymology 1
From exude + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
exudate (plural exudates)
- A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
- 1861, Stephen Jennings Goodfellow, Lectures on the Diseases of the Kidney, Generally Known as Brights Disease, and Dropsy:
- The whitish lines of exudate seem at times to penetrate even between the straight tubes . . .
- 2005, Selma Tibi, The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-century Baghdad:
- When this is done, one should leave the poppy for some time, then return to it and gather any further exudate.
Translations
a fluid that has exuded from somewhere
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Etymology 2
Back-formation from exudation, on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Verb
exudate (third-person singular simple present exudates, present participle exudating, simple past and past participle exudated)
- (obsolete) To exude.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
- There is, hereto, no derivation of the seminal parts, nor any passage from hence, unto the vessels of ejaculation: some perforations only in the part itself, through which the humour included doth exudate
Spanish
Verb
exudate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of exudar combined with te