Crossword-Solution: DIAPEDESIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diapedesis | n. | The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “DIAPEDESIS”
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| LEUCOCYTES slipping in and out of blood vessels, process of | 1 answer |
| WHITE blood cells slipping in and out of blood vessels, process of | 1 answer |
| transmigration | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEAZEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DIAPEDESIS (5)
More remarkable and strange is the action of the Indian viper-poison on the minute ganglia in the vaso-motor nerve ends, which control the capillary circulation, and by their paralysis bring about extensive hæmorrhage through diapedesis.
Diapedesis is now supposed to be the result of blood pressure, but it occurs in snakebite, where blood pressure is at zero.
Feoktistow, we have seen, produced it locally on the mesentery of animals with normal blood pressure, whilst Banerjee arrested by strychnine-injections profuse hæmorrhages from all the mucous surfaces, which were no doubt the result of diapedesis.
But of all the maladies that affect cutaneous transpiration, _diapedesis_, or sweating of blood, is the most singular; so much so, indeed, that its existence has been doubted, although several well authenticated cases are on record, both in the ancient and modern annals of medicine.
Henry ab Heer records the case of a man who not only laboured under diapedesis, but small worms accompanied the bloody secretion.