There is edema of the ureal tract, apparently from transudation of serum. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
This loss is one of simple transudation, increasing as the powers of life decrease. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
Afterwards, as the weather becomes hotter, incisions are made through the bark, to assist the transudation of the juice. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828] Reference
Some of the air which enters the lung gets from the bronchial tubes into the blood-vessels by transudation, for there is no direct communication between them; and this air, penetrating the body, rapidly cools the blood throughout the vessels. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
If we do not dilute it sufficiently, it is diluted in the stomach by transudation of water in the stomach, until the required reduction for its absorption; the current then sets in toward the blood, and passes into the circulating canals by the veins. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The cornea arises from the sclerotic tunic, the uvea and secundina take their origin from the pia mater, and the conjunctiva from a thin pellicle or membrane which covers the exterior of the cranium and is nourished by a transudation of the blood through the coronal suture. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
His discussions last time about plethysmographs and transudation. From Wordnik.com. [The Latest on Air America] Reference
How it passed through the lungs was a problem: probably by a continuous transudation. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference
An engorgement of blood spurs a lubricating process called vaginal transudation: the seeping of moisture through the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
While the sleazy structures of the lymphatic temperament are favorable to the functions of transudation, exhalation, and mutual diffusion of liquids, the sanguine, as its name indicates, is adapted to promote the circulation of the blood, to favor nutrition and reproduction. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Just so far as we can recognize the ordinary modes of operation of the common forces of nature, -- gravity, cohesion, elasticity, transudation, chemical action, and the rest, -- we see the so-called vital acts in the light of a larger range of known facts and familiar analogies. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
The blood of the pregnant mare contains an excess of water and a smaller proportion of albumen and red globules, and when this condition is still further aggravated by poor feeding and other unhygienic conditions there is developed the tendency to liquid transudation from the vessels and dropsy. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Exosmosis means the passage of fluid from within outward, and is a process constantly taking place in health; while transudation takes place because the blood is watery and the tissues are feeble and permeable, permitting the serum and watery elements of the blood to pass into certain cavities, where they accumulate. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
We may, indeed, note it as a nicety, that the membrane must be moist through which this transudation is to take place; and I admit that there are men whose enveloping sheath of individualism and egotism is so hard and dry, so little interpenetrated by candor and the love of truth, as to be nearly impervious to noble persuasion; and were whole Missouris of tidings from the highest intelligence rushing past them, they would still yawn, and say, "Do you get any news?" as innocently as ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
(transudation). From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
But, according to HEYMANN, the peripheral nerve-ends, i.e., the terminal bulbs of KRAUSE, of the sensory nerves, and the tactile corpuscles of MEISSNER, become even without this presupposition sufficiently impregnated with water while in the bath, because here all insensible perspiration must cease, and in a bath of a temperature lower than blood-heat transpiration cannot take place, so that all transudation to the skin being retained during the bath, those termini are surrounded by moisture and therefore swell up. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
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