exudate

Noun

exudate (plural exudates)

1. A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
   • The whitish lines of exudate seem at times to penetrate even between the straight tubes . . .1861, Stephen Jennings Goodfellow, Lectures on the Diseases of the Kidney, Generally Known as Brights Disease, and Dropsy
   • When this is done, one should leave the poppy for some time, then return to it and gather any further exudate.2005, Selma Tibi, The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-century Baghdad

Verb

IPA/ˈɛksjʊdeɪt/

exudate (third-person singular simple present exudates, present participle exudating, simple past and past participle exudated)

1. (obsolete) To exude.
   • 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 exudate1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC