Exudate vs Edema - What's the difference?
exudate | edema |
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 .
(obsolete) To exude.
(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
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
English
(wikipedia exudate)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(exudat)- (Sir Thomas Browne)