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名詞

exudation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 exudations)

1. The act or process of exuding.
   • 1943, “Out of the Fire,” Time, 16 August, 1943,^[1]

     In severe burns, the body loses large amounts of nitrogen, in the urine and by exudation from the burned body surface.

2. Something that is exuded.
   • 1848-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, ch 29:

     Major Pendennis, having read with difficulty his nephew’s name under Mr. Warrington’s on the wall of No. 6, found still greater difficulty in climbing the abominable black stairs, up the banisters of which, which contributed their damp exudations to his gloves, he groped painfully until he came to the third story.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:

     The car was parked in close to the rustic fence, under the lime trees, and their sticky exudations had already stippled the windscreen.