different between extravasation vs extravagation

English

Etymology

From extravasate (“let out or force out (blood or fluid)”) +? -ation; further etymology at extravasate. Attested from the 17th century.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?k?st?æv??se???n/

Noun

extravasation (countable and uncountable, plural extravasations)

1. The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
2. The eruption of molten lava from a volcanic vent. [from 19th century]

Related terms

• extravasate
• extravasatory

References

• extravasation, n., Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

extravasation f (plural extravasations)

1. extravasation

Further reading

• “extravasation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Noun

extravagation (countable and uncountable, plural extravagations)

1. (archaic) A wandering beyond limits; excess.
   • 1659, Edmund Chilmead (translator), A Learned Treatise of Globes, Both Cœlestiall and Terrestriall with Their Several Uses, London: Andrew Kemb, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 15,^[1]

     By reaso[n] of which their digressions and extravagations, the ancients assigned the Zodiaque 12. Degrees of Latitude.

   • 1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Volume I, The British Novelists, Volume 30, London: V.C. and J. Rivington et al., p. 136,^[2]

     […] I don’t pretend to justify the extravagations of the multitude; who, I suppose, were as wild in their former censure, as in their present praise […]

   • 2010, Paul A. Griffith, Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Preface, p. x,^[3]

     Such tropes expose the extravagation whereby capitalism is decked out as the incontestable standard of human behavior and culture.

2. An agricultural term for the process of activating the enzymes in a cow’s stomach causing it to produce milk, this is due to the applied centrifugal force. The cow usually passes out in the first minute so no harm is felt by the animal. It is mainly used in South American farm mostly in Brasil but the technique can be found in Central Europe as well.

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