effusion
noun
- a pouring forth
- unrestrained or emotional expression in speaking or writing
- an escape of fluid that is bloody, serous, etc. into body cavities or tissues
- this fluid
- the passage of a gas under pressure through an orifice whose size is smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules, as in measuring low vapor pressures
See effusion in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ĭ-fyo͞oˈzhən)
nouna. The act or an instance of effusing.
b. Liquid or other matter poured forth.
- An unrestrained outpouring of feeling, as in speech or writing: “the devout effusions of sacred eloquence” (Edmund Burke).
- Pathology
a. The seeping of serous, purulent, or bloody fluid into a body cavity or tissue.
b. The effused fluid.
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