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Suppuration vs Exudate - What's the difference?

suppuration | exudate |

As nouns the difference between suppuration and exudate

is that suppuration is decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself while exudate is a fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.

As a verb exudate is

to exude.

suppuration

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) Decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself.
  • 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)