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What is a diapedesis?

What is a diapedesis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The migration of blood cells (especially leucocytes) through the intact walls of blood vessels into the surrounding tissue
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It is supposed that in many such cases the hemorrhage is due to diapedesis, and not to rupture of a blood-vessel.
In 1870, Woodward observed a photomicrograph from the stomach of a mare with gastroenteritis demonstrating a white blood cell undergoing diapedesis from a small vein.
Diapedesis is now supposed to be the result of blood pressure, but it occurs in snakebite, where blood pressure is at zero.
This escape of red corpuscles is known as diapedesis, and is sometimes so extensive as to amount to capillary hemorrhage.
The main action of endocan relates to the inhibition of leukocyte diapedesis.
These events contribute to leukocyte diapedesis across the endothelial monolayer and tissue inflammation.

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