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Exudate vs Edema - What's the difference?

exudate | edema |

As nouns the difference between exudate and edema

is that exudate is a fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant while edema is an excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity.

As a verb exudate

is to exude.

exudate

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 .
  • Verb

    (exudat)
  • (obsolete) To exude.
  • (Sir Thomas Browne)

    edema

    English

    (wikipedia edema)

    Alternative forms

    * oedema (UK), (UK)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (US, pathology) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity
  • (US) A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water
  • Synonyms

    * dropsy (1) * hydrops

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