Definition of "exudate"

exudate

/ˈɛksjʊdeɪt/

noun
plural exudates
1. A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
  Quotations
  The whitish lines of exudate seem at times to penetrate even between the straight tubes . .
  1861, Stephen Jennings Goodfellow, Lectures on the Diseases of the Kidney, Generally Known as Brights Disease, and Dropsy
  When this is done, one should leave the poppy for some time, then return to it and gather any further exudate.
  2005, Selma Tibi, The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-century Baghdad
verb
third-person singular simple present exudates, present participle exudating, simple past and past participle exudated
1. (obsolete) To exude.
  Quotations
  There is, hereto, no derivation of the seminal parts, nor any passage from hence, unto the vessels of ejaculation: some perforations only in the part itself, through which the humour included doth exudate
  1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […]