Etymology From exude + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
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A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
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:
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 exudate1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC: