Obs. [f. as prec. + -ATION. Cf. obs. F. transcoulation (Cotgr.).] The process of transcolating; straining, filtration; = PERCOLATION a.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., IX. i. (1678), 216. That solution of Continuity … which is generated by sweating out and transcolation, [termed] Diapedesis.
1662. Stillingfl., Orig. Sacr., III. iv. § 6. Meer transcolation may by degrees take away that which the Chymists call the fixed salt.
1702. W. Cowrer, in Phil. Trans., XXIII. 1185. In Bruises when the Blood is extravassated, it goes off either by Transcolation or else causes an Abscess.
1817. [see TRANSCOLATING].
