Infiltrate vs Consolidation - What's the difference?
infiltrate | consolidation |
To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.
* Addison
To cause a fluid to pass through a substance by filtration.
To send soldiers through gaps in the enemy line.
(of an intravenous needle) To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
The combination of several actions into one.
(medicine) A solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.
As a verb infiltrate
is to surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.As a noun consolidation is
the act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.infiltrate
English
Verb
(infiltrat)- The water infiltrates through the porous rock.
