Word Meanings - INFILTRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body. 2. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. Addison. Calcareous infiltrations filling

Additional info about word: INFILTRATION

1. The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body. 2. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. Addison. Calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities. Kirwan. Fatty infiltration. See under Fatty. -- Infiltration gallery, a filter gallery.

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