extravasation
Meaning of extravasation: The leakage of blood, lymph, or other fluid, such as an anticancer drug, from a blood vessel or tube into the tissue around it.
Definition of extravasation
The leakage of blood, lymph, or other fluid, such as an anticancer drug, from a blood vessel or tube into the tissue around it. It is also used to describe the movement of cells out of a blood vessel into tissue during inflammation or metastasis (the spread of cancer).
How extravasation is built
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extravasation
- extra- Prefix · Latin outside, beyond
- vas/o Combining form · Latin vessel, duct
- -ion, -ation Suffix · Latin process, action, or its result
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