Definitions for diapedesis

diapedesis di·a·pe·de·sis

Spelling: [dahy-uh-pi-dee-sis]
IPA: /ˌdaɪ ə pɪˈdi sɪs/

Diapedesis is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in diapedesis (addeeiipss).

Definitions for diapedesis

noun

  1. the passage of blood cells, especially leukocytes, through the unruptured walls of the capillaries into the tissues.

Origin of diapedesis

1615-25; New Latin Greek diapḗdēsis a leaping through, equivalent to diapēdē- (verbid stem of diapēdân to leap through) + -sis -sis

Examples for diapedesis

diapedesis is now supposed to be the result of blood pressure, but it occurs in snakebite, where blood pressure is at zero.

To the number of these there is possibly an addition by the immigration from below (diapedesis) of leucocytes.

It is supposed that in many such cases the hemorrhage is due to diapedesis, and not to rupture of a blood-vessel (rhexis).

The theory of blood pressure may apply to diapedesis accompanying the inflammatory process.

This escape of red corpuscles is known as diapedesis, and is sometimes so extensive as to amount to capillary hemorrhage.

That leading feature of viper poison, diapedesis with hæmorrhage, does not occur with either.

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