EFFUSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does effusion mean? 

• EFFUSION (noun)
  The noun EFFUSION has 2 senses:

1. an unrestrained expression of emotion

2. flow under pressure

  Familiarity information: EFFUSION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EFFUSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unrestrained expression of emotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

blowup; ebullition; effusion; gush; outburst

Hypernyms ("effusion" is a kind of...):

expression; manifestation; reflection; reflexion (expression without words)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "effusion"):

acting out (a (usually irritating) impulsive and uncontrollable outburst by a problem child or a neurotic adult)

cry (a fit of weeping)

explosion (a sudden outburst)

flare (a sudden outburst of emotion)

Derivation:

effuse (give out or emit (also metaphorically))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Flow under pressure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("effusion" is a kind of...):

flood; outpouring; overflow (a large flow)

Derivation:

effuse (flow or spill forth)

 Context examples 

EXAMPLE(S): For a specimen collection, the methodCode could = "finger stick", "veni puncture", "Abdominal/ascites effusion", "Biopsy", "Bronchial alveolar lavage (BAL)".

(Defined Procedure Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Symptoms include joint swelling, pain, and joint effusion.

(Diffuse Giant Cell Tumor of Tendon Sheath, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by milky pleural effusion (abnormal collection of fluid) resulting from accumulation of lymph fluid in the pleural cavity.

(Chylothorax, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A milky pleural effusion resulting from accumulation of lymph fluid in the pleural cavity.

(Chylothorax, NCI Thesaurus)

The happiness of having such a sister was their first effusion, and the fair ladies mingled in embraces and tears of joy.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Acute compression of the heart caused by increased intrapericardial pressure due to the collection of blood or fluid in the pericardium from rupture of the heart, penetrating trauma, or progressive effusion.

(Cardiac Tamponade, NCI Thesaurus)

For example, a pleural effusion is a collection of fluid between the two layers of membrane covering the lungs.

(Effusion, NCI Dictionary)

The continuous cell line K-562 was established by Lozzio and Lozzio from the pleural effusion of a 53-year-old female with chronic myelogenous leukemia in terminal blast crises.

(K-562, NCI Thesaurus)

Cell line derived from a pleural effusion of a human breast adenocarcinoma; has retained several characteristics of differentiated mammary epithelium.

(MCF7, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)