Word Meanings - EXTRAVASATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

Related words: (words related to EXTRAVASATION)

• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• LETTRURE
  See CHAUCER
• EFFUSION
  1. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden. 2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I
• LETTIC
  Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish. Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian. -- n. The language of the Letts; Lettish. The language of the Lettic race, including Lettish,
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• FORCUT
  To cut completely; to cut off. Chaucer.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FORCING
  The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat. Forcing bed or pit, a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• DILETTANTE
  An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only. The true poet is not an eccentric creature, not a mere artist living only for art, not
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• BRIOLETTE
  An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• BELLE-LETTRIST
  One versed in belleslettres.
• DILETTANTISM
  See HARRISON
• ENFORCIBLE
  That may be enforced.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne