(n.) Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
(n.) Soft flow; spring.
(n.) The liquor of a tan vat.
(n.) To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
(n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
(v. t.) To cause to ooze.
Example Sentences:
(1) The time of doubling of the bacterial number can be calculated approximately by counting bacterial cells in the ooze layer every day.
(2) Eurozone leaders ooze confidence that Greece’s financial collapse could be easily weathered by the rest of the currency bloc.
(3) The paper presents data concerning the activity of microflora in water and ooze deposits of lakes of the Yaroslavl Region.
(4) Of 193 patients suffering from peptic ulcer bleeding identified by emergency gastrointestinoscopy, 52 patients were found to have bleeding gastric ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 9, fresh clot 11, black clot 17, protruding vessel 4, and clear base without stigmata 6); the other 141 had bleeding duodenal ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 26, fresh clot 43, black clot 23, protruding vessel 15, and clear base without stigmata 31).
(5) A search for an intact blister is always warranted when erosions, oozing, or crusts are noted.
(6) Fungi of the class Pyrenomycetes (Ascomycotina) form a morphological series ranging from those that shoot ascospores (sexual spores) forcibly from the ascus (spore sac) to fungi that ooze ascospores or have no obvious mechanism for ascospore release.
(7) Microorganisms were studied by capillary microscopy in the surface layer of ooze and in the bottom layer of water in the ore field of the lake Krasnoye.
(8) Jamie Vardy, oozing belief, headed the ball smartly to set it into his path before sweeping sweetly past Cech.
(9) In the case with Ehlers-Danlos, the disease presented rupioid plaque-like erythematous oozing lesions which seem somewhat different from those of the photodermatosis yet known.
(10) Sixteen patients with RPE ooze were followed for a mean of 4.5 years without treatment.
(11) But the British prime minister oozed schadenfreude with the result, received strong support from the Germans, the Dutch and the Scandinavians and looked pleased with the stalemate, portraying himself as the scourge of bloated Brussels, the guardian of the British and the European taxpayer.
(12) The dialogue is perfect: the broker waxes inanely on ("A lovely space"), and the prospective buyers ooze gratitude at being granted a viewing.
(13) The population densities in this surface sediment at two nearby stations, one with a predominantly mineral stream bed and the other an organic ooze, did not differ significantly.
(14) These differences in haemodynamics give rise to less arterial, and notably less venous oozing of blood from the surgical area.
(15) If the incision is kept negatively charged through application of an electrical current, coagulation at the site will be inhibited and the wound will ooze for many hours.
(16) Big names frighten them on their doorsteps, oozing bogus bonhomie.
(17) It seems to be under constant threat of being swallowed by the toxic mud that oozes between the tents and huts that house approximately 6,000 human beings.
(18) Caine’s Guardian reader may be decrepit and disillusioned but still oozes wit and discerning taste.
(19) In parallel the prognosis of oozing bleeding improved.
(20) A closed drain, i.e., the Robinson drainage system, can be kept in place for at least 12-24 h to check the postoperative ooze.
Transude
Definition:
(v. i.) To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Narrowing and angulation of these veins could result in elevated back pressure favoring the formation of a transudate.
(2) Ascites fluid in liver cirrhosis and heart failure, representing a true transudate, had a comparatively low protein content while the ascites fluid in inflammatory bowel diseases including Crohn's disease had high protein content.
(3) The amount of the fluid flowing off the vessels, perfusate penetration into the intestinal lumen and its transudation through the serous membrane were determined.
(4) These effusions were borderline between exudates and transudates and showed little evidence of inflammation.
(5) Two mechanisms were proposed to explain these abnormalities: transudation of serum FFAs into the pancreatic duct and local production of arachidonic acid as a result of the damage to pancreatic cell membranes.
(6) Myxedema should be considered in the differential diagnosis of an unexplained pleural effusion no matter whether it is a transudate or an exudate.
(7) It is suggested that HSP-albumin may be used as a reliable marker of transudation of serum proteins to the genital tract.
(8) Under the conditions of this study, which included intravenous administration of cephalothin sodium preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively, the small intestinal transudate did not harbor enteric bacteria.
(9) Thus, the main anti-transudation mechanism of topical BUD is not related to modulation of BK-breakdown.
(10) However, during acute lung injury, LBP levels may rise by transudation and enhance activation of alveolar macrophages to release injurious mediators.
(11) With normal animals as with swine influenza animals, no serum antibody could be recovered neither in buccopharyngeal secretions nor in lung washings: it seems that in such conditions no detectable transudation occurs from blood to local secretions.
(12) Our results indicate that the determination of cholesterol levels is a simple and inexpensive method for distinguishing between transudate and exsudate.
(13) The activity of a nonlysosomal enzyme, i. e., lactic dehydrogenase, which was used as a marker of cell disruption and of serum transudation was the same as that of serum.
(14) We suggest that the sonographic finding of ascites and gallbladder wall thickening should be considered a valuable sign of transudative ascites and of portal hypertension whatever its cause.
(15) An algorithm for classifying effusions as transudates, modified transudates, or exudates is included, and each category is discussed.
(16) The frequent increase in CSF protein in cases of neurilemmoma is attributed to transudation of serum from abnormal vessels.
(17) Apart from these morphological changes that occur, the hydrodynamics of the transudate (from the tunica vasculosa lentis) and the aqueous humor from the ciliary epithelium appear to be essential components in the maintenance of the integrity of the anterior and posterior chambers.
(18) The differentiation of transudate and exudate is diagnostically as essential as a functional interpretation of the cell sediments of above all inflammatory effusions.
(19) The gingival fluid of the control subjects had a cAMP concentration of 2.4 X 10(-6) M, which was a hundredfold greater than that seen in serum, thus suggesting that the cAMP in the fluid resulted from active synthesis by the gingival cells and was not merely a transudate from the blood.
(20) Soluble IL-2R level in carcinomatous pleural effusions was found to be significantly higher (p less than 0.001) than that in sera of patients with carcinomatous pleural effusions and that in transudates.