Exudate

By Deane Barker • •

This is a noun that refers to anything that “oozes” out of a wound. It’s the noun form of the verb “exuding.”

It can come from animals or trees and plants. Sap that oozes out of a cut in a tree, for example, is exudate.

Why I Looked It Up

In Ultra-Processed People:

And the dinners were no better: two of the saddest, most withered-looking burgers, tinned grey-green beans, tinned sweetcorn, mac-and-cheese that looks like some sort of wound exudate…

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