extravasation

1. 1.

   an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation

   Broaderliquid
2. 2.

   (of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)

   Synonymseruptioneructation

   Broaderaction

   vent

3. 3.

   the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine

   Broaderorganic process

   Narrowerblood extravasationurocele

Other forms of extravasation

plural

extravasations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about extravasation

What does extravasation mean?

extravasation means "an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in extravasation?

extravasation has 6 syllables: ex-tra-va-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for extravasation?

Close synonyms include eruption, eructation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is extravasation a common word?

extravasation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.