ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
† 1. Placed outside a vessel. Obs. rare.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., II. 108. The flux in the extravasated leg of the Syphon, is at first most strong.
fig. 1726. De Foe, Hist. Devil (1840), 259. If he be not in the inside … I have so mean an opinion of all his extravasated powers that [etc.].
2. Of a fluid, esp. blood: Let or forced out of its proper vessel; effused.
1681. trans. Willis’ Rem. Med. Wks., Vocab., Extravasated, Put, or let forth of the Vessels as Blood out of the Veins.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 154/2. Extravasated bloud.
1759. J. Mills, trans. Duhamel’s Husb., I. xv. 80. The extravasated juice of the leaves of a kind of ash.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), II. 343. The coagulation of the extravasated latex.
b. Caused by extravasation of blood.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxxiv. (1856), 304. I have two cases of swelled limbs and extravasated blotches.
3. Geol. Poured forth from a subterranean reservoir. Cf. EXTRAVASATION 2.
1875. N. Amer. Rev., CXX. 205. Here, too, we find the germs of his [T. S. Hunt’s] theory of ‘extravasated’ rocks.
