LEAKAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leakage mean? 

• LEAKAGE (noun)
  The noun LEAKAGE has 1 sense:

1. the discharge of a fluid from some container

  Familiarity information: LEAKAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAKAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The discharge of a fluid from some container

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

escape; leak; leakage; outflow

Context example:

he had to clean up the leak

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

discharge; outpouring; run (the pouring forth of a fluid)

Derivation:

leak (have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out)

leak (enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure)

 Context examples 

Dexamethasone inhibits inflammation thereby preventing leakage from the capillaries and a reduction of retinal edema.

(Dexamethasone Intravitreal Implant, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding of leakage due to breakdown of an esophageal anastomosis (surgical connection of two separate anatomic structures).

(Esophageal Anastomotic Leakage, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

This leads to a leakage and loss of essential cellular constituents.

(Natamycin, NCI Thesaurus)

An artifact resulting from the leakage of an imaging agent from its location of administration.

(Dose Extravasation, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding of injury of the soft tissues or bone characterized by leakage of blood into surrounding tissues.

(Bruise, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A syndrome characterized by leakage of intravascular fluids into the extravascular space.

(Capillary leak syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Leakage due to breakdown of a fallopian tube anastomosis.

(Fallopian Tube Anastomotic Leakage, NCI Thesaurus)

This results in leakage and loss of essential intracellular compounds, and eventually causes cell lysis.

(Clotrimazole, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding of leakage due to breakdown of a fallopian tube anastomosis (surgical connection of two separate anatomic structures).

(Fallopian Tube Anastomotic Leakage, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

The leakage of blood, lymph, or other fluid, such as an anticancer drug, from a blood vessel or tube into the tissue around it.

(Extravasation, NCI Dictionary)