exudation

noun exudations

1. countable, uncountable The act or process of exuding. In severe burns, the body loses large amounts of nitrogen, in the urine and by exudation from the burned body surface.
2. countable, uncountable Something that is exuded. Major Pendennis, having read with difficulty his nephew’s name under Mr. Warrington’s on the wall of No. 6, found still greater difficulty in climbing the abominable black stairs, up the banisters of which, which contributed their damp exudations to his gloves, he groped painfully until he came to t