NOUN
- the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine
- an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation
- (of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)
How To Use extravasation In A Sentence
- Epinephrine's vasoconstrictive properties can be a problem if extravasation into tissue occurs, and may result in skin necrosis.
- Tumors show a spindle cell neoplasm with prominent extravasation.
- Owing to severity of the structural injury to the brain or the possible rupture of blood vessels and blood extravasation, the reaction may often be followed by encephalitis or cerebritis, and will then have to be treated accordingly. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
- Application of ice packs and heating pads, and elevation are used to alleviate the symptoms associated with extravasation of contrast material.
- Angiography after the embolization therapy showed minimal extravasation of contrast medium from the aneurysm.
- Only one extravasation progressed to an ulceration; skin necrosis was avoided in all other patients.
- Proleukin administration has been associated with capillary leak syndrome (CLS) which is characterized by a loss of vascular tone and extravasation of plasma proteins and fluid into the extravascular space. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- This pain is a potential warning sign of tissue damage and possible phlebitis or extravasation.
- Purpura results from the extravasation of blood from the vasculature into the skin or mucous membranes.
- Vasopressin should be infused through a central catheter because peripheral extravasation could cause tissue necrosis and gangrene.